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«I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America. But I am afraid lest they should only exist as a dead sect, having the form of religion without the power. And this undoubtedly will be the case unless they hold fast both the doctrine, spirit, and discipline with which they first set out.»
Author: John Wesley
(Evangelist)
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America, America First, case, cease, discipline, doctrine, Europe, fast, hold fast, lest, sect, set out, Spirit of America, undoubtedly
«He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
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Christianity
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church, proceed, sect
«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»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
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abjure, abjured, Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholic churches, detest, detested, heresies, sect, unfeigned
«For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes: / Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.»
Author: Bible
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mover, movers, pestilent, profane, ringleader, ringleaders, sect, sedition, The temple
«HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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extinct, in the beginning, last century, Protestants, sect
«GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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caucus, chagrin, early Christians, fusion, gnostic, GNOSTICS, sect
«If One Wishes That a Sect of a Republic Live a Long Time, It Is Necessary to Draw It Back Often toward Its Principle»
«If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument»
«I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
ascendancy, bring about, freedom of religion, legal, maneuver, maneuvers, sect
«For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm»
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