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“Familiarity with holy things can often engender blindness, and churches are, for all their merits, institutions that embody, perhaps more than most, the will to perpetuate themselves. In this process, they can easily lose sight of the purpose for which they came into being and, in so doing, frustrate the Spirit.”

Spirit Purpose Process Loses Church Holy Sight Institutions Merit Blindness Familiarity

Book:Why Animal Suffering Matters: Philosophy, Theology, and Practical Ethics

Source: Why Animal Suffering Matters: Philosophy, Theology, and Practical Ethics

“Organized religion is in substance a mystification, a means of hiding the wickedness of the social system. If the Christian principles of love, equality, and freedom were really practiced instead of only preached, there would be no need for a special institution(the church) to take care of those principles.”

Ifs Needs Mean Would Be Care Christian Social Church Principles Special Institutions Take Care Substance Organized Hiding Wickedness Organized Religion Social Systems

Author:Erich Fromm

“If the Africans and Arabs were ruling Spain from 711 to 1492, had they destroyed the Catholic church, they still would be ruling Spain to this day because that's the institution that held them together. The institute that gave them the only hope was their church. This is why we are so depressed because the institutions of hope that would cause fulfillment amongst us has either been destroyed or laughed at.”

Ifs Stills Would Be Together Causes Church Catholic Institutions Destroyed Fulfillment This Day Laughed Spain Ruling Catholic Church Institute

Author:John Henrik Clarke

“I think at every moment in the last probably 100 years, when the institutional church had the opportunity to do the right thing, they did the wrong thing. They're a dying institution in many parts of the world because they refuse to ordain women or married people. And now they're a dying institution because some of their members did enormous harm to young people and instead of responding aggressively with humility, and with love, and with the confession of wrongdoing, they tried to spin it as though they were a political party, and that's just deplorable.”

“My body was born into the - baptized in the Methodist church, and it will be buried in the Methodist Church. Meanwhile, I have a soul. And my soul cannot be confined to any human institution.”

Humans Soul Body Born Church Institutions My Soul Buried Confined Baptized Methodists Baptized In

Author:Huston Smith

“To pastors and leaders who serve faithfully, who work to teach and shepherd those who are in your church or religious institution: thank you for all you do.”

Church Religious Leader Teach Institutions Pastor Shepherds

Author:Steve Daines

“We're used to institutional-maintenance Catholicism, in which the institution ticks along by its own inertia and people are "born" into the Church. Francis knows that is over and done with: "Kept" Catholicism, whether "kept" by legal establishment or by cultural habit, has no future.”

People Knows Done Used Born Church Habit Institutions Catholicism Establishment Maintenance Inertia Tick

Author:George Weigel

“All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”

Source: The Theological Works of Thomas Paine

“As a member of the Mormon church, Romney is instructed to tithe 10 percent of his income. That's in keeping with most charitable giving: Religious institutions get about one-third of all contributions, according to 'The American' magazine.”

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Author:John Podhoretz

“Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.”

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Author:Margaret Sanger

“What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!”

Two Reason Church Wife Pride Institutions Theatre Cruelty Brotherhood Demonstration Dividing Religion And Politics Harlots

Book:Jerusalem: A Simplified Version

Source: Jerusalem: A Simplified Version

“I felt that the Church was the Church of the poor,... but at the same time, I felt that it did not set its face against a social order which made so much charity in the present sense of the word necessary. I felt that charity was a word to choke over. Who wanted charity? And it was not just human pride but a strong sense of man's dignity and worth, and what was due to him in justice, that made me resent, rather than feel pround of so mighty a sum total of Catholic institutions.”

Men Feels Humans Made Wanted Faces Order Strong Social Felt Church Justice Poor Pride Dignity Catholic Institutions Charity Dues Choke Resent Social Order

Author:Dorothy Day

“We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.”

Trying Humans Church Ideals Claims Institutions Deny This Life Distinctive

Book:Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church

Source: Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church

“Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society.”

“Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because, um - they're no longer relevant. We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?”

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Author:Bill Hicks

“When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.”

Inspirational Two Book God Reading Church Lord Growing Up Growing Institutions Library Belonging Reading Books Singer Songwriters Rolling Stones Public Library Children Growing Up Attributes Of God

Author:Keith Richards

“Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.”

Bits Church Institutions Priests Hospitals Locks Monasteries

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious institution.”

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Book:Against method: outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge

Source: Against method: outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge

“I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take a league. I think, as I did when I wrote The God Delusion, that the Roman Catholic Church is a disgusting institution, the second most evil religion in the world.”

“I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.”

“In the beginning the church was a fellowship of men and women centering on the living Christ. Then the church moved to Greece where it became a philosophy. Then it moved to Rome where it became an institution. Next, it moved to Europe, where it became a culture. And, finally, it moved to America where it became an enterprise.”

“Religion is a superstition that originated in man`s mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been stumbling to block progress.”

Men Natural Church Religious Progress Institutions Solve Block Superstitions Inability Stumbling Natural Phenomena

Book:Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909

Source: Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909

“I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead let this be said of me: 'He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any regime except the regime of liberty.'”

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Author:Gustave Courbet

“The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free - which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.”

Should States Government Church Liberty Function Institutions Presses Notion University Checks Communist Free Society

Author:Alan Barth

“Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.”

Christ Church Christianity Heard Institutions Word Of God Sacraments Doubted

Author:John Calvin

“The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it.”

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Author:William Tyndale

“The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction.”

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Author:Leo Tolstoy

“The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs of the Church ought to be punished as those who disobey the law of God.”

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Author:Saint Augustine

“As long as we see church life as a meeting we’ll miss its reality and its depth. If the truth were told, the Scriptures tell us very little about how the early church met. It tells us volumes about how they shared life together. They didn’t see the church as a meeting or an institution, but as a family living under Father.”

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Author:Wayne Jacobsen

“Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.”

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Book:Human Nature and the Social Order

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“It's interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the men are wearing the dresses.”

Men Two Law Church Interesting He Man Dresses Institutions Court Feminist Anti Feminist Law Courts

Book:Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times

Source: Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times

“In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.”

People States Whole Social Church Students Equal Institutions University Worthy Faculty Congregation Social Institutions

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“The immense wealth of doctrine and institutions can become a handicap if we are trying to present all of that to a person who has lost all contact with the Church and no longer knows who Jesus is. That would be like clothing a baby with one of those enormous, heavy brocaded copes that priests and bishops used to wear. Instead, it is necessary to help this person establish a relationship with Jesus.”

“One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there's the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre.”

Heart Spirit Certain Belief Community Church Team Football Institutions Theatre Locals Pubs Football Team Inspirational Team

Author:David Soul

“The lessons of religious toleration - a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience - is one which, by precept and example, must be inculcated in the hearts and minds of all Americans if the institutions of our democracy are to be maintained and perpetuated. We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.”

“It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual's incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is precisely what his attitude was toward the phenomenon of the Church in the year, say, 1500. It does not appear to have occurred to the Church-citizen of that day, any more than it occurs to the State-citizen of the present, to ask what sort of institution it was that claimed his allegiance.”

Years Doe States Asks Individual Church Interesting Attitude Citizens Empathy Institutions Average Phenomenon Apathy Allegiance

Author:Albert J. Nock

“In England, we have a curious institution called the Church of England. Its strength has always been in the fact that on any moral or political issue it can produce such a wide divergence of opinion that nobody -- from the Pope to Mao Tse-tung -- can say with any confidence that he is not an Anglican. Its weaknesses are that nobody pays much attention to it and very few people attend its functions.”

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Author:Auberon Waugh

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