Jane Hamilton Quotes

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme.

The moment religion organizes into a specific creed it becomes a political force. From Moses down to Brigham Young, every creed-founder has been a Statebuilder.

I don't really like the word 'religion.' To me, that's like rules and regulations and paying money to send up prayers. That kind of all weirds me out, honestly.

I'm not really a fan of organized religion.

I'm against organised religion of any kind.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

I just think religion is something... It could be a beautiful thing for the individual, but when it becomes organized, that's when religion starts taking a kind of ugly turn to me.

The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

The Church should not be confused with religion.

I grew a very strong dislike for the organized aspect of religion over the course of time.

I was raised in the church.

I'm not really into religion.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.

I believe religion is man-made.

In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church.

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.

I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

A religion without rules or God isn't sustainable.