Best Religious Sects Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Diary, with passages from an autobiography. Notes of debates in the Continental Congress, in 1775 and 1776. Autobiography

“The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by a series of observers, none of whom is impartial. The facts are distorted by sheer passage of time and thousands of years of humanity's dark ages, deliberate misrepresentations by religious sects, and the inevitable corruption that comes from an accumulation of careless mistakes. The wise person, then, views history as a set of lessons to be learned, choices and ramifications to be considered and discussed, and mistakes that should never again be made.”

“Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.”

Source: The Essential Jefferson

“[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.”

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Book:The Jefferson Bible: With the Annotated Commentaries on Religion of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The Jefferson Bible: With the Annotated Commentaries on Religion of Thomas Jefferson

“I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.”

Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence

“Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.”

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786

“No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect.”

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Book:1816-1828

Source: 1816-1828

“It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority with such distinctness as to avoid collisions and doubts on unessential points. The tendency to unsurpastion on one side or the other, or to a corrupting coalition or alliance between them, will be best guarded agst. by an entire abstinence of the Gov't from interfence in any way whatsoever, beyond the necessity of preserving public order, and protecting each sect agst. trespasses on its legal rights by others.”

“Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects, and every religious person is loyal to just one of these. ... The overwhelming majority just happen to choose the one their parents belonged to. Not the sect that has the best evidence in its favour, the best miracles, the best moral code, the best cathedral, the best stained-glass, the best music when it comes to choosing from the smorgasbord of available religions, their potential virtues seem to count for nothing compared to the matter of heredity.”

“We all agree that neither the Government nor political parties ought to interfere with religious sects. It is equally true that religious sects ought not to interfere with the Government or with political parties. We believe that the cause of good government and the cause of religion both suffer by all such interference.”

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

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Author:James Monroe

“It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.”

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Book:The Orson Pratt Journals

Source: The Orson Pratt Journals

“A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.”

“Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe that the United States would ever be disposed to establish one religious sect, and lay all others under legal disabilities. But as we know not what may take place hereafter, and any such test would be exceedingly injurious to the rights of free citizens, I cannot think it altogether superfluous to have added a clause, which secures us from the possibility of such oppression.”

“When one guy sees an invisible man he's a nut case; ten people see him it's a cult; ten million people see him it's a respected religion.”

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Author:Richard Jeni

“Chord substitution isn't some mysterious religious sect.”

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Author:Howard Roberts