Sects Quotes

Sects Quote of the day

It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.

He who does reverence to his own sect, while disparaging the sects of others with intent to enhance the glory of his own sect, by such conduct inflicts the severest injury on his own sect.

The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

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.

No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.

There are no sects in geometry.

[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 the duperies in which they live.

The existing confusion of conflicting creeds and sects is fitly represented by the term "Babylon," which prophecy (Revelation 14:8) applies to the world-loving churches of the last days.

Belief and disbelief have divided humankind into so many sects, blinding its eyes to the vision of the Oneness of all Life.

The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity.

There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.

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.

Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.

When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.

There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.

If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.

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 has no patience to wait.

the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.

All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect.

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 truth

Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.

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 inextinguishable hatred for one another.

Syrians have a national identity beyond the sectarian divide. Syria's national identity would be weaker and poorer if it didn't have this beautiful pluralism between Arabs, Kurds, and sects.

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

I am a sect by myself, as far as I know.

Truth can stand by itself...If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth.

The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads.

Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.

Sectarian feelings and criticism of other teachings or other sects is very bad, poisonous, and should be avoided.

How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects?

The reason why so many sects hang around airports looking for converts: they know that people there are at their most vulnerable and perplexed, and ready to accept any kind of guidance.

There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.

To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretenses but your own.

Iraqis don't trust one another, parties and ministries are run by sects and not by functionaries.

The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

Sects differ more in name than tenets.

I've always wondered what it means to the Republican Party to be pro-Israel. My husband says that is is because certain sects of Christianity need Jews in Israel for the second coming.

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 in religion.

France is a country where thinking is supposed to be furtive, invisible, almost clandestine. France is a country of cliques and sects.