Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.
There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
Chârvâkas, a very ancient sect in India, were rank materialists.
[Book's subtitle:] Designed as a beacon of light to guide women to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but which may be read by members of the sterner sect, without injury to themselves or the book.
Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path.
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.
All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs.
Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
We wouldn't have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state ; we would have disintegration of Syria if that was the case. It can't be tolerated in Syria. I'm talking about the normal reaction of the people. If it's not a national army, it cannot have the support, and if it doesn't have the public support of every sect, it cannot do its job and advance recently. It cannot. The army of the family doesn't make national war.
A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.
The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power.
A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.
Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church.
But it is a fact that within Jewry there exists a sect which engaged in these murders.
. . . testifying for Dr. Privitera. . . To these 19 cancer victims, the enforcement of (California) Health and Safety Code Sect. 1701. 1, the denial of them medical treatment, albeit unorthodox, albeit unapproved by a state agency, must surely take on a Kafka-esque, a nightmare quality. No demonstrated public anger, no compelling interest of the state warrants an Orwellian intrusion into the most private of zones of privacy.
There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.
If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument
Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.