Butler has many arrows in his quiver to be discharged against that target of sectarian animosity, Romanism, and other claims to public sympathy and patronage broadly set forth in his manifold tables.
Imperfect or sectarian Christianity, although capable of producing partial and limited improvement, is too weak for the task which its more generous and enterprising professors exact from it, and endeavor to stimulate it to undertake.
Butler is justified in claiming three hundred and fifty thousand native Christians (Protestants) as the result of sectarian teaching and zeal in India is not easily determined.
Sectarian schools ought not to be supported by public taxation.
All the sectarian institutions ought to support themselves.
He disliked sectariandisputes excessively, and always avoided them if he could.
The same fact ought to rebuke and warn us against the narrow sectarian spirit in which existing divisions originate, and which is so manifestly out of harmony with "the spirit of Christ.
For let us call to mind, for a moment, some of the more eminent Christian men and women of modern times, to whatever sectarian fold they may have owned themselves to belong.
Nor is it desired simply to retrace in controversial method the beaten paths of sectarian or theological debate; but rather, in the interest of a free and enlightened Christianity, to present freshly the positive affirmations of faith.
Though a Presbyterian in doctrine, and loyal to that church, he is remarkably free from sectarian exclusiveness, and all evangelical churches seek and obtain his ministerial services.
The sectarian systems {98} of religion are calculated to lead men of reflection and intelligence into skepticism, to cause them to deny all interference of God with men and their affairs, and to deny even his right to interfere.
Never by the help of sectarian ministers, that much is true, at least.
In this field Unitarians have always been pioneers, and their aims have usually been to promote culture without sectarian zeal.
After using it as a designation for several years, he and others abandoned it from a growing dislike to anything resembling a badge or watchword of sectarian distinction.
A comparison of the many striking agreements between Christianity and Buddhism may prove fatal to sectarian conceptions of either religion, but will in the end help to mature our insight into the true significance of both.
Buddhism, like Christianity, is split up into innumerable sects, and these sects not infrequently cling to their sectarian tenets as being the main and most indispensable features of their religion.
The present book follows none of the sectarian doctrines, but takes an ideal position upon which all true Buddhists may stand as upon common ground.
In the sectarian sense indeed, Cromwell never attached himself to the Independent or to any other religious body.
He soon discovered that the greater part of the infantry of the New Model Army was by no means sectarian or even Puritan in its opinions.
As for the second, it is necessary to lay aside all sectarian preoccupations, if ever a true historic judgment is to be formed.
Even those Presbyterians who distrusted a malignant King held aloof from the sectarian Englishman.
In other words, the sectarian officers could command the services of the army as a whole, backed as they would be by the most energetic of the private soldiers.
The difference is suggestive, and illustrates the radical divergence between the Catholic and the sectarian frame of mind.
This was one of the most abominable of the bad actions to which a sectarian spirit has pushed human beings.
Doubtless isolated cases of embarrassment would occur, but they would be insignificant in comparison with the embarrassments inherent in sectarian divisions.
The short millennium of such love is followed by the fresh loosing of the Satan of malevolence out of his prison, and the clashing in battle of the Gog and Magog of sectarian rivalry.
And now she had touched the highest point of sectarian fame.
The learning in all is remarkable; the freedom from sectarian bitterness, from bigotry, and from the insolent assumption of moral and religious superiority, is even more striking, in such proselytising compositions.
This inhuman attitude, inspired by a narrow, sectarian nationalism, stands in absolute contradiction to the Gospel: it is a monstrous heresy, which cannot but dwarf all other crimes.
The need to restrain such disintegrating political and religious-sectarian ideas, has always existed in our country, as it also exists now.
Then, there were the jealousies of the sectarian preachers; and perhaps worse than all, the evil work of apostates.
Sectarian preachers and politicians who wanted some office began to spread falsehoods all over the country about Utah and its people, all of which had its effect on Congress.
The sectarian preachers heard about this and complained to the Indian agent, who ordered the elders off the Indian lands.
Let us hope they are entertained by this searching examination of sectarian "positions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sectarian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
