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A religion which requires persecution to sustain it is of the devil's propagation.


Hosea Ballou

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Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
HOSEA BALLOU Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
HOSEA BALLOU Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.
KARY MULLIS Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature...
THOMAS PAINE Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature...
THOMAS PAINE prove that he suffered past persecution or will suffer future persecution on account of race, religi...
ELIAN GONZALEZ No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
HOSEA BALLOU Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
HOSEA BALLOU It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.
HOSEA BALLOU Mystery and innocence are not akin.
HOSEA BALLOU Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
HOSEA BALLOU Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtu...
HOSEA BALLOU There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith in doctrinal matters. Can y...
HOSEA BALLOU Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
HOSEA BALLOU The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in hu...
HOSEA BALLOU Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
HOSEA BALLOU Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children te...
HOSEA BALLOU Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
HOSEA BALLOU Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argume...
HOSEA BALLOU Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
HOSEA BALLOU Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
HOSEA BALLOU Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
HOSEA BALLOU Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue...
HOSEA BALLOU The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those op...
HOSEA BALLOU Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
HOSEA BALLOU A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white ...
HOSEA BALLOU Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
HOSEA BALLOU Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
HOSEA BALLOU Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
HOSEA BALLOU Hatred is self-punishment.
HOSEA BALLOU A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink- drop soileth the pure whit...
HOSEA BALLOU In the diligence of his idleness. [Lat., Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.]
HOSEA BALLOU Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
HOSEA BALLOU Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
HOSEA BALLOU Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
HOSEA BALLOU Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
HOSEA BALLOU Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little childr...
HOSEA BALLOU God's glowing covenant.
HOSEA BALLOU Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
HOSEA BALLOU The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those op...
HOSEA BALLOU Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth t...
HOSEA BALLOU Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little childre...
HOSEA BALLOU A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
HOSEA BALLOU As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.
HOSEA BALLOU My lodging it is on the cold ground, and very hard is my fare, But that which troubles me most, is...
HOSEA BALLOU Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little childre...
HOSEA BALLOU Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction
HOSEA BALLOU Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
HOSEA BALLOU A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white ...
HOSEA BALLOU Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little childre...
HOSEA BALLOU Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable
HOSEA BALLOU No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
HOSEA BALLOU The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in hu...
HOSEA BALLOU Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself
HOSEA BALLOU Error is always more busy than truth.
HOSEA BALLOU Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
HOSEA BALLOU Mystery and innocence are not akin
HOSEA BALLOU Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
ARTHUR WELLESLEY Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils
ARTHUR WELLESLEY And fight with them until there is no persecution, and religion should be only for Allah, but if the...
QURAN If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps wome...
TASLIMA NASRIN Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in...
WILLIAM ROBERTSON SMITH To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbeliev...
THOMAS JEFFERSON That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disb...
THOMAS JEFFERSON All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and tre...
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
DUKE OF WELLINGTON ARTHUR WELLESLEY widespread use of torture, persecution of minority groups and the denial of freedom of speech, assoc...
JIANG ZEMIN Religion requires faith. Faith does not require religion.
RAIN BOJANGLES Religion requires God. God does not require religion.
RAIN BOJANGLES Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religio...
BINNEY God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted in any civil state; which enforced uniformi...
ROGER WILLIAMS Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Her...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON [Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT How in any way does EQUALITY with other people equate to 'religious persecution'? Does the survival ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. H...
FRANCINE RIVERS The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most...
JOHN STUART MILL Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. What has been the fruit of religion? Pride and indolence in the clergy, ignorance in the laity, in b...
JAMES MADISON Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
DAVID SEABURY Good humor isn't a trait of character; it is an art which requires practice
DAVID SEABURY The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution a...
WALTER KOENIG 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good
MORRIS COHEN Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT The House of Commons is a great unwieldy body, which requires great Art and some Cordials to keep it...
HENRY PELHAM It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world
ABDUL SATTAR EDHI His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
DAVID SEABURY Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a re...
GEORGE ORWELL The league's changed, and maybe some of the Devils' wins aren't the way the Devils used to win. But ...
SCOTT GOMEZ I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

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