Creeds Quotations

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point?

When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

And so about many other things of the same nature, we are trying to make people believe these things, and we make creeds of them; and thus we continue to do our own will, which is the ground of all sin.

From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.

I was a Christian in Creed, but nobody ever asked me.

There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

We are born in relation, we live in relation, we die in relation. There is, literally, no such human place as simply "inside myself." Nor is any person, creed, ideology, or movement entirely "outside myself."

A cat is a cat. She has no race creed or collar.

The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.

Scriptures and creeds may come to seem incredible, but faith will still go dancing on.

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.

God places all creeds and nationalities, I want to be able to reach everyone of them, educate them and be capable of moving them on a universal scope.

Thus far, women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are all of masculine origin. The true woman is as yet a dream of the future.

There is more faith in an honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds

As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.

I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.

Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.

Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.

All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.

We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.

True American Liberalism utterly denies the whole creed of socialism.

Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.

Nihilism is but the other side of conventionalism; its creed consists of negations of the current so-called positive values, to which it remains bound.

I cannot support for a moment any system of education which in the name of denominationalism or under any other name, draws funds from the coffers of the State manifestly for the propagation of creeds and dogmas widely divergent.

A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best.

If all creeds are equally true, then since they are contradictory to one another, they are all equally false, or at least equally uncertain.

'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.

When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

This is my voice. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

My problems were not what ended Creed.

Creed's sound is my sound.

When did the lemons learn the same creed as the sun?

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.

The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop the strongest proselytizing impulse.

The soul that feeds on books alone -- I count that soul exceeding small That lives alone by book and creed, -- A soul that has not learned to read.

I want a laitywho know their creed so well, that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.

America is the only country ever founded on a creed.

The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.

My creed is love and you are its only tenet.

A few minutes later, she was once again riding her own horse. Deciding to take the lead, she nudged the mare into a trot, and as she passed Brodick and Ramsey, she called out, "You used trickery." "Yes, I did," he admitted. "Are you angry with me?" She laughed again. "I don't get angry. I get even." Unbeknownst to her, she had just recited the Buchanan creed.

The best creed we can have is charity toward the creeds of others.

Sekts and creeds ov religion, are like pocket compesses, good enuff tu pinte out the direction, but the nearer the pole yu git thewuss tha wurk.

Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.

Compatibilism amounts to nothing more than an assertion of the following creed: A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

Creeds are not straitjackets, but guardrails that keep us safe.

It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed.

The Working Man's Creed: "A short day is better than a short dollar" .

Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped.

The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.

The creed of sacrifice is a morality for the immoral.

A creed is an ossified metaphor.

Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is ''All striving is vain,'' will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him.

I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.

There are no creeds in mathematics.

For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.

My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force.

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed.

Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.

Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.

I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed.

Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.

It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

Love's creed is separate from all religions.

I do not believe in the creed professed by any church that I know of. Each of these churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my part, I disbelieve them all.