Sects Quotes

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Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all… — Joseph Lancaster
The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a religious life. The… — Swami Vivekananda
There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and countries, and that… — Swami Vivekananda
The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect, he… — Swami Vivekananda
It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was… — Joseph Story
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. To this chiefly it is owing that we find sects… — Thomas Reid
If the Lord wills, we shall make this Math a great centre of harmony. Our Lord is the visible embodiment of the harmony of all… — Swami Vivekananda
Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory,… — Martin Luther
Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of… — Thomas Jefferson
If we look back in history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find a few that have not in their… — Benjamin Franklin
Freedom arises from a multiplicity of sects, which pervades America, and is the best and only security for religious liberty in America. — James Madison
You all know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all, there is the book. The power of the book is… — Swami Vivekananda
Seek the underlying harmonies of love and the overarching rainbow of hope, rather than the surface distinctions of creeds and of sects. Work for peace… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Sects differ more in name than tenets. — Honore de Balzac
From the dissensions among Sects themselves arise necessarily a right of choosing and necessity of deliberating to which we will conform. But if we choose… — Thomas Jefferson
There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own. — Charles Caleb Colton
The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute. — Omar Khayyam
Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind. — Amos Bronson Alcott
When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a… — Henry David Thoreau
In a free Government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in… — James Madison

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