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SECTS
[ Also see Belief Bigotry Christianity Creed Dogmatism Faction Fanaticism Party Religion Theology Union Unity ]

Sects differ more in name than tenets.
      - Honore de Balzac

His liberal soul with every sect agreed,
  Unheard their reasons, he received their creed.
      - George Crabbe

But since our sects in prophecy grow higher,
  The text inspires not them, text inspire.
      - John Dryden

Few sects have derived their sentiments purely from sacred oracles, but are the emanations of distinguished leaders.
      - Robert Hall

The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads.
      - Thomas Babington Macaulay

The Japanese, who have but two systems of religion,--namely, that of Buddhism and Shintoism,--have yet many sects under each.
      - Henry Mason

For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
      - Alexander Pope

Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.
      - Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater")

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