Quote by Hosea Ballou
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devils propagation. – Hosea Ballou

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The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration. – Hosea Ballou

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A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. – Hosea Ballou

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The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals. – Jonathan Lethem

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I acknowledge myself a unitarian – Abigail Adams

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I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment. – Donald Cargill

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Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind. – Kenneth Scott Latourette

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