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Top 10 Marlene Winell Quotes (2025 Update)

Marlene Winell Quote: “Taking charge of your own life is central to recovery from religious indoctrination. If you learned to wait passively for God’s will and to feel guilty for making your own decisions, this will be a challenge. Notions of responsibility were confused in fundamentalism, since you were at the same time accountable for sin, for making the choice to accept Christ, and for leading others to God.”

1. “Taking charge of your own life is central to recovery from religious indoctrination. If you learned to wait passively for God’s will and to feel guilty for making your own decisions, this will be a challenge. Notions of responsibility were confused in fundamentalism, since you were at the same time accountable for sin, for making the choice to accept Christ, and for leading others to God.”

— Marlene Winell

Marlene Winell Quote: “The very nature of dogma is to separate, because these kinds of systems claim to have the only truth. Therefore, no matter how altruistic its announcements, a rigid religion will produce judgment, because there will always be “others” who believe differently. Judgment leads to discrimination and, all too often, to persecution. Dogma can never bring us together to understand each other in our shared humanity.”

2. “The very nature of dogma is to separate, because these kinds of systems claim to have the only truth. Therefore, no matter how altruistic its announcements, a rigid religion will produce judgment, because there will always be “others” who believe differently. Judgment leads to discrimination and, all too often, to persecution. Dogma can never bring us together to understand each other in our shared humanity.”

— Marlene Winell

Marlene Winell Quote: “Neurotic guilt,” like that often fostered by religion, is a different matter. It tends to be excessive and inappropriate, based on the expectations of others instead of personal values or dwelling on the error rather than using the guilt feelings to make a change. In your religious experience, committing a sin made you a sinner, a bad deed made a bad person. This global condemnation creates low self-worth and more neurotic guilt and misery.”

3. “Neurotic guilt,” like that often fostered by religion, is a different matter. It tends to be excessive and inappropriate, based on the expectations of others instead of personal values or dwelling on the error rather than using the guilt feelings to make a change. In your religious experience, committing a sin made you a sinner, a bad deed made a bad person. This global condemnation creates low self-worth and more neurotic guilt and misery.”

— Marlene Winell

Marlene Winell Quote: “Christians are also made to feel guilty when they focus on their own priorities. It is seen as wrong and sinful to be aware of your feelings, honor your intuitions, or seek to meet you needs. You should be above this kind of selfishness and consider God first and then the group. But, since people naturally have needs and feelings, sincere Christians who want to avoid guilt must, in essence, annihilate themselves. This makes for more cooperative adherents.”

4. “Christians are also made to feel guilty when they focus on their own priorities. It is seen as wrong and sinful to be aware of your feelings, honor your intuitions, or seek to meet you needs. You should be above this kind of selfishness and consider God first and then the group. But, since people naturally have needs and feelings, sincere Christians who want to avoid guilt must, in essence, annihilate themselves. This makes for more cooperative adherents.”

— Marlene Winell

Marlene Winell Quote: “My way of answering the question of self-indulgence or self-pity is this: Becoming whole, healthy, and self-responsible involves two parts, What happened? and So what?”

5. “My way of answering the question of self-indulgence or self-pity is this: Becoming whole, healthy, and self-responsible involves two parts, What happened? and So what?”

— Marlene Winell

Marlene Winell Quote: “When you no longer consider yourself one of the chosen elite, there is no need to look down on others. In fact, the human flaws and struggles you see around you might become a valued part of your new sense of shared humanity.”

6. “When you no longer consider yourself one of the chosen elite, there is no need to look down on others. In fact, the human flaws and struggles you see around you might become a valued part of your new sense of shared humanity.”

— Marlene Winell

Marlene Winell Quote: “A dogmatic religion is one that does not truly honor the thoughts and feelings of the individual. It is also one that is static, without room for development. Doubt is considered sinful, and contradicting information is screened out. The divine and sacred are seen as derived from outside, with no recognition afforded to a person’s inner resources of wisdom, strength, and love.”

7. “A dogmatic religion is one that does not truly honor the thoughts and feelings of the individual. It is also one that is static, without room for development. Doubt is considered sinful, and contradicting information is screened out. The divine and sacred are seen as derived from outside, with no recognition afforded to a person’s inner resources of wisdom, strength, and love.”

— Marlene Winell

Marlene Winell Quote: “My faith was central to my life for many years. In answer to the challenge “But were you ever really born again?” there is no doubt in my mind that my Christian experience was genuine. The benefits were real, especially as an adolescent. Later the cost became too great. Leaving the fold was then a long and wrenching process which tore at the fabric of my existence. The changes I went through created confusion, fear, anger, and grief. I had to find out who I was and redefine reality.”

8. “My faith was central to my life for many years. In answer to the challenge “But were you ever really born again?” there is no doubt in my mind that my Christian experience was genuine. The benefits were real, especially as an adolescent. Later the cost became too great. Leaving the fold was then a long and wrenching process which tore at the fabric of my existence. The changes I went through created confusion, fear, anger, and grief. I had to find out who I was and redefine reality.”

— Marlene Winell

Marlene Winell Quote: “Whether sudden or gradual, breaking away usually creates a state of serious confusion. This can be a major upheaval because your religion essentially defined your entire structure of reality and your old definitions no longer hold. Notions of who you were, your purpose in life, your relationship to others; needed explanations about the world; interpretations of the past; expectations for the future; and directions about how to feel, think, make decisions, and lead your life have been lost.”

9. “Whether sudden or gradual, breaking away usually creates a state of serious confusion. This can be a major upheaval because your religion essentially defined your entire structure of reality and your old definitions no longer hold. Notions of who you were, your purpose in life, your relationship to others; needed explanations about the world; interpretations of the past; expectations for the future; and directions about how to feel, think, make decisions, and lead your life have been lost.”

— Marlene Winell

Marlene Winell Quote: “The first step in processing feelings cannot be overemphasized: stop everything and take a time out. Your brain works so automatically that if you do not interrupt your usual thought patterns; you will continue to have exactly the same feelings and reactions over and over again. So when you have a strong feeling, just stop. Give yourself a chance to look at it. You may need to get away from the situation by physically removing yourself from other people.”

10. “The first step in processing feelings cannot be overemphasized: stop everything and take a time out. Your brain works so automatically that if you do not interrupt your usual thought patterns; you will continue to have exactly the same feelings and reactions over and over again. So when you have a strong feeling, just stop. Give yourself a chance to look at it. You may need to get away from the situation by physically removing yourself from other people.”

— Marlene Winell

Marlene Winell Quote: “For those who find spirituality to be a continuing source of meaning and purpose, their spirituality needs to be redefined and made more personal.”

11. “For those who find spirituality to be a continuing source of meaning and purpose, their spirituality needs to be redefined and made more personal.”

— Marlene Winell

Marlene Winell Quote: “The most powerful technique of fundamentalism is a terror tactic. Fundamentalism teaches the existence of hell, a place of eternal torment.”

12. “The most powerful technique of fundamentalism is a terror tactic. Fundamentalism teaches the existence of hell, a place of eternal torment.”

— Marlene Winell

Marlene Winell Quote: “As each of us proceeds with personal development, we return again and again to family issues. Little else in life has the same profound impact. In a sense, you carry your original family inside you. Father, mother, and other primary caregivers become internalized and form a permanent part of who you are. Thus to ignore family is to ignore yourself. Understanding your family experience is to understand yourself and move on with your growth.”

13. “As each of us proceeds with personal development, we return again and again to family issues. Little else in life has the same profound impact. In a sense, you carry your original family inside you. Father, mother, and other primary caregivers become internalized and form a permanent part of who you are. Thus to ignore family is to ignore yourself. Understanding your family experience is to understand yourself and move on with your growth.”

— Marlene Winell

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