Schism Quotes

• Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Desire, Courtesy, Supremacy

  "The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza" by Benedict de Spinoza, ch. 20, 1670.

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• My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Eye, Thinking, Church

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• There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

  Saint Augustine

  Unity, Church, Serious

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• Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.

  John Podhoretz

  Song, Sirens, Lost

  "Stopping Hillary". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. May 9, 2006.

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• I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.

  Alan Greenspan

  Wall, Government, Becoming

  "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. August 1, 2010.

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• All -isms end up in schisms.

  Huston Smith

  Isms, Ends

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• Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Book, Religion, Foundation

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• A schism in the body social, will not be resolved by any scheme of a return to the good old days (archaism), or by programs guaranteed to render an ideal projected future (futurism), or even by the most realistic, hardheaded work to weld together again the deteriorating elements. Only birth can conquer death -- the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new.

  Joseph Campbell

  Old Things, Together Again, Elements

  Peter A. Clayton, Joseph Campbell (1994). “Great figures of mythology”, Gramercy

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• The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.

  John Ruskin

  Christian, Letting Go, Men

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• Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, People, Politics

  Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.212, Princeton University Press

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• There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

  Jodi Picoult

  Awards, Unwritten

  "Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview With Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

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• Tolerance is our safest refuge and our fortress against the handicaps that arise from schism, factions, and the difficulties inherent in reaching mutual agreement

  Fethullah Gulen

  Agreement, Tolerance, Fortresses

  M. Fethullah Gülen (2010). “Toward Global Civilization Love Tolerance”, p.56, Tughra Books

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• The deeper reality is that I’m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I’m certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?…There is almost certainly a constructed schism between (a) how I feel, and (b) how I think I feel. There’s probably a third level, too—how I want to think I feel.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Real, Believe, Thinking

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• Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.

  Van Morrison

  Philosophy, Simple, Greed

  Song: I'm Tired Joey Boy, Album: Avalon Sunset

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• Let us pray for the Catholic Church; for the Churches throughout the whole world; that is, for their truth, unity, and stability; that in all charity may flourish, and truth may live. For our own Church, that what is lacking in it may be supplied; what is unsound, corrected; that all Heresies, Schisms, Scandals, as well public as private, may be removed. Correct the wandering, convert the unbelieving, increase the faith of the Church, destroy Heresies, discover the crafty enemies, crush the violent.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Crush, Catholic, Unity

  Lancelot Andrewes (1957). “Private Prayers”, London : S.C.M. Press

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• The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

  Benjamin Rush

  Knowing Jesus, Going To Church, Truth Will Prevail

  Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1793-1813”

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• For Christians to be linked in association with ministries who do not preach the gospel of Christ is to incur moral guilt. A Union which can continue irrespective of whether its member churches belong to a common faith is not fulfilling any scriptural function. The preservation of a denominational association when it is powerless to discipline heretics cannot be justified on the grounds of the preservation of 'Christian unity'... It is error which breaks the unity of churches, and to remain in a denominational alignment which condones error is to support schism.

  Charles Haddon

  Christian, Errors, Discipline

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• As we've said, it's not a coincidence that Fear Itself, Schism, and other big stories end at the same time. This is the first brick in the next road.

  Tom Brevoort

  Next, Firsts, Bricks

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• The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Struggle, Home, Triumph

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• The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the strength of the Church depends upon them all alike, yet one among the twelve is chosen so that when a head has been appointed, there may be no occasion for schism.

  St. Jerome

  Keys, Heaven, Church

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• Wonderful, Annabeth thought. Her own mother, the most levelheaded Olympian, was reduced to a raving, vicious scatterbrain in a subway station. And, of all the gods who might help them, the only ones not affected by the Greek-Roman schism seemed to be Aphrodite, Nemesis and Dionysus. Love, revenge, wine. Very helpful.

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Revenge, Wine

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• The empire of Christ the King includes not only Catholic nations, not only baptized persons who, though of right belonging to the Church, have been led astray by error, or have been cut off from her by schism, but also all those who are outside the Christian faith: so that truly the whole of mankind is subject to the power of Jesus Christ.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Christian, Jesus, Kings

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• The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of whom knew what they were fighting about, and which schisms contributed to the decline and fall of this greatest of states. Rome had thrived for one thousand years with pagan gods at the helm and expired after only one hundred and fifty years under the Christian banner.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Christian, Fall, Fighting

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• If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, 'The world is quiet here,' as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Hands

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• I think you have to ask yourself, what is the point of the script? What is the script selling? Because all scripts are political, every story is political. It either challenges or reinforces some schism or stereotype. So what is the project going to say at the end of the day? What does it tell you about the world, or what does it challenge in terms of your world?

  Susan Sarandon

  Thinking, Political, Challenges

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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