Formal Religion Quotes

#1. That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion, and teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

Elbert Hubbard

#3. I am an atheist. I was born a Catholic, but after I had traveled to Northern Ireland with some Catholic friends, and we had a horrible experience with the English Protestant police, I lost all taste for formal religion.

Guy Laliberte

#4. Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.

E.B. White

#5. It seems to me that a spiritual sensibility is built into human nature. Formal religion may or may not disappear but art, love and a desire to find beauty will remain.

Frank Schaeffer

#6. All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

Hypatia

#7. We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect.

A. N. Wilson

#8. I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

David Knopfler

#9. Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James and John.

Dallin H. Oaks

#10. You cannot hide your true self forever.

Cassandra Clare

#11. The forest, like a casino, always wins. That's why you should never gamble, or enter the forest. And above all, never underestimate Schmidty.

Gitty Daneshvari

#12. And also those to whom these commandments were given, might have power to lay the foundation of this church, and to bring it forth out of obscurity and out of darkness, the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth ...

Joseph Smith Jr.

#13. single car waited helplessly at a dormant traffic light;

Colin Meloy

#14. We've lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still, but it's just not art. We have photography. We have cameras and computers that do it better and faster.

Gerhard Richter

#15. Games have been called the lab for the development of moral attributes, but they will not, of themselves, accomplish this purpose. They must be properly conducted by competent individuals.

James Naismith

#16. I'm not particularly into the formal, political side of faith, although I am spiritual and I do have a faith. But 'Strictly Come Dancing' is my religion.

Miranda Hart

#17. Fate is a fickle bitch. Just when you believe you've secured the goose that lays the golden egg, she back heels you in the bollocks.

Ken Scott

#18. If the Democrats suggested a plan to burn down the Capitol building, the Republicans would counter with a plan to do it over the course of three years.

Douglas Wilson

#19. While we wait, God builds our faith in His promises.

James MacDonald

#20. All these things were shaken about within Peter Lake like pots and pans banging against the side of a peddler's swaybacked horse. It was hard to bear the weight of partial revelations which refused to venture past the tip of his tongue.

Mark Helprin

#21. Her kiss was a good-bye and a promise and a dream.

Shannon A. Thompson