I am the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
He who comes from the kitchen, smells of its smoke; and he who adheres to a sect, has something of its cant;… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church; but the faith of the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I've always wondered what it means to the Republican Party to be pro-Israel. My husband says that is is because certain sects… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly; and where it fails them, they… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is also a trait of the organizations that I call lodges - everything from corporate cultures to religious sects. Their bonding… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If those who oppose Freethought did not strive to force all to think as they do, accept Christ by faith, believe the… — Etta Semple Copy Share Image
Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There are a score of great religions in the world, each with scores or hundreds of sects, each with its priestly orders,… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Of publishing a book on religion, my dear sir, I never had an idea. I should as soon think of writing for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“because Buddhism, having been adopted by savage tribes as well as civilized nations, by quiet, enervated people as well as by warlike,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
I believe in absolute freedom of conscience for all men and equality of all churches, all sects and all beliefs before the… — Al Smith Copy Share Image
The dumpling-eaters are a race sprung partly from the old Epicurean and partly from the Peripatetic Sect; they were first brought into… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretenses… — Lionel Strachey Copy Share Image
Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
[Book's subtitle:] Designed as a beacon of light to guide women to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but which may… — Marietta Holley Copy Share Image
And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it… — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
Give heed to the cause of the holy Roman Church, mother of all churches and teacher of the faith, whom you by… — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
Our opinions partake, more or less, of the prejudices of our class, party, or sect. We are all largely pledged, through interest,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I saw also the relationship between the two popes I saw how baleful (evil; harmful) would be the consequences of this false… — Anne Catherine Emmerich Copy Share Image
In a free Government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must -… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
“The Pannion Domin … why are we sparing a mole’s ass for some upstart zealots? These things burn out. Every time. They… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
Every one of the numberless religions and religious sects views the Deity after its own fashion; and, fathering on the unknown its… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
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