Sects Quotes

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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such… — Robert Frost
America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies. — James F. Cooper
Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what… — Mary Douglas
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other. — Thomas Jefferson
There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture. — Laurence Sterne
We all sat there laughing and sipping tea peacefully, an infidel and representatives from three warring sects of Islam. And I thought if we can… — Greg Mortenson
[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of… — Thomas Jefferson
No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the… — Blaise Pascal
No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing,… — William Shakespeare
Hmph," said Sharon . "Did you know that the numbers three and seven are sacred to vampires? There are seven vampire sects." "Seven sacred sects,"… — Michele Bardsley
After their return from Babylon, the practice of human sacrifice died out among the Jews, but survived as an ideal in one of its break-away… — Steven Pinker
There are a score of great religions in the world, each with scores or hundreds of sects, each with its priestly orders, its complicated creed… — Upton Sinclair
Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn! — Galen
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… — Alexander Hamilton
For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between… — Hanna Rosin
The Bible sits on the pulpit of hundreds of different religious sects. — Ezra Taft Benson
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… — Jakob Bohme
By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal… — Samuel Chase
The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions… — Frances Wright
I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint… — Emma Lazarus

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