Devil Quote by Hosea Ballou Download Open image “Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.” — Hosea Ballou ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Devil Persecution Religion
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity. — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further. — Jack Pritchard Copy Share Image
Persecution is one way to drive believers away and create a carnal comfort zone. — John Hagee Copy Share Image
A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Once sure that the doctrine we teach is God's Word, once certain of this, we may build thereupon, and know that this cause shall… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is in the highest interests of the devil to persuade the world that religious people are disagreeable. — Hubert Van Zeller Copy Share Image
Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the fair blossom,… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight! — Chris Oyakhilome Copy Share Image
You gonna take the case?" It's not a case. It's a missing person. Sort of." You're gonna have a devil of a time finding… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over. The… — Grant Morrison Copy Share
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. — Rumi Copy Share
Remember that Abraham Lincoln was a Whig far longer than he was a Republican. As a whole, the Whigs looked upon banks and corporations as a more efficient means of development; the Jacksonian Democrats thought they were the tools of the devil, but Whigs like Lincoln disagreed. During his presidency, Lincoln favored the re-construction of a national financial system, and… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share
This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful things and you imagine terrible things, and you take no responsibility for the choice. You say you have inside you both the power of good and the power of evil, the angel and the devil, but… — Michael Crichton Copy Share
“The devil?” Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. “Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials. — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”—Charles Baudelaire “The second greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
