Quotes of: Sects Keyword

A Christian is of no sect. He can dwell in the midst of sects, and appear in their services, without being attached or bound to any. He hath but one knowledge, and that is, Christ in him.

Jakob Bohme

When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.

Paul Harris

If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent biology teacher can only conclude that the sect's beliefs are wrong and that its religion is a fals...

George Gaylord Simpson

It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

Orson Pratt

A sect, incidentally, is a religion with no political power.

Thomas Wolfe

I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect.

Christopher Hitchens

The Bible sits on the pulpit of hundreds of different religious sects.

Ezra Taft Benson

But it is a fact that within Jewry there exists a sect which engaged in these murders.

Julius Streicher

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

Goldwin Smith

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Walter Savage Landor

As far as you are able to gather from hints scattered through these letters, Apocryphal Power, riven by internecine battles and eluding the control of its founder, Ermes Marana, has broken into two groups: a sect of enlightened followers of the Archa...

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

In the end, He's the only reason that I made it. Sometimes that's the only thing we have. Whether you call it God, or hope, or faith -whatever word you use- the fact is, I couldn't have survived if I hadn't believed in something. It was the one part ...

Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs

Catholic, Episcopalian, I won’t have sects with you.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?

Vladimir Ilich Lenin

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

Samuel Gompers

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

Ezra Pound

Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

Edgar Quinet

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

Thomas Jefferson

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

William Hazlitt