Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes

Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?

The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.

All organized religions are basically the same.

I don't see how one can "believe in organized religion." What does it mean to believe in an organization? One can join it, support it, oppose it, accept its doctrines or reject them. There are many kinds of organized religion. People associate themselves with some of them, or not, for all sorts of reasons, maybe belief in some of their doctrines.

The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.

It is with this as with religion: one usually believes what he has been taught.

In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.

Boy, if Garth Ennis had created a religion, I would sure like to be a part of that. It just makes sense, the way he tackles things in it. It's really heavy stuff and it's incredibly well written.

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

I believe in God and not religion, because I believe religion is the double cross. Because I've been double crossed by three religions, so I think I can safely say that religion - there is maybe something wrong with religion. Every temple that's put up may not be a holy one, so watch out.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.

I'm not really a fan of organized religion.

In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.

I think of religion as something that stains the person. It's a mindset you can never get free from, it's always in the back of your head.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement.

Religion is a superstition that originated in man's mental ability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an organized institution that has always been a stumbling block to progress.

I'm fascinated by the business of belief, obviously, because it's so ever present with humanity anyway. And, you know, when you have science, which constantly talks of proofs, you have religion, which constantly talks of beliefs and faith and so on.

The local church is the hope of the world.

Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion.

My dad was a non-denominational preacher, actually a Congregationalist which is really where all congregations come to congregate. That's why it's called a Congregationalist. Later on in life, he just became a non-denominational preacher, kind of a fire and brimstone type guy. That's how I grew up.

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

If Vulcans had a church, they’d be Catholics.