Courtesy Quote by Baruch Spinoza

My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.

— Richard John Neuhaus

There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

— Saint Augustine

“He shall also judge those who give rise to schisms, who are destitute of the love of God, and who look to their own…

— The Church Fathers

“And if the problems about schism and reunion mean dying and rising with Christ, they will not be solved through easy humanistic ideas of…

— Arthur Michael Ramsey

The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys of the…

— St. Jerome

“the sixteenth-century schism was really a belated revolt of the thirteenth-century pessimists.  It was a back-wash of the old Augustinian Puritanism against the Aristotelian…

— G.K. Chesterton

Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves;…

— Saint Augustine

All -isms end up in schisms.

— Huston Smith

Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.

— Rumi

... the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when…

— Freya Stark

Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

“When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith: But hollow men,…

— William Shakespeare