Creeds quotes
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As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.
-- A. N. Wilson -
To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.
-- Amy Lowell -
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Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error.
-- Andrew Jackson Davis -
The creed of sacrifice is a morality for the immoral.
-- Ayn Rand -
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.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
-- Berthold Auerbach -
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Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late.
-- Calvin Miller -
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
-- Clarence Day -
She'd stood by that creed. No softness, because the world wasn't soft; lots of laughter, because if you were in on the joke, the joke couldn't be on you; And no wanting what you couldn't take, because the world never gave. Or so she'd thought.
-- Connie Brockway -
A cat is a cat. She has no race creed or collar.
-- Eartha Kitt -
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The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.
-- Edgar Guest -
Human hopes and human creeds; have their root in human needs.
-- Eugene Fitch Ware -
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
We have come to a place now where our search for Truth must no longer be for the rewards; it must no longer be our seeking a creed to follow, but it must be our living a life.
-- H. Emilie Cady -
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My creed is LOVE; Wherever its caravan turns along the way, That is my belief, My faith.
-- Ibn Arabi -
Seek the underlying harmonies of love and the overarching rainbow of hope, rather than the surface distinctions of creeds and of sects. Work for peace in religion.
-- Jenkin Lloyd Jones -
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.
-- Joaquin Miller -
From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier -
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The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.
-- Joseph Brodsky -
The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.
-- Joseph Conrad -
Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.
-- Joseph Silk -
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.
-- Josh Billings -
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The best creed we can have is charity toward the creeds of others.
-- Josh Billings -
Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
-- Kabir -
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.
-- Ken Doherty -
There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
-- Livy -
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History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.
-- Louis Fischer -
True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.
-- Louis Nizer -
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.
-- Mary Augusta Ward -
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Our Jewishness is not a creed, it is ourself, our totality. Indeed, it may be fairly said that the surest evidence of your lack of seriousness in religion is the fact that your religions are not national, that you are not compromised and dedicated, en masse, to the faith.
-- Maurice Samuel -
The proposition that the principal articles of the Apostles' Creed did not have the same meaning for the Christians of the earliest times as they have for Christians of our time is hereby condemned and proscribed as erroneous.
-- Pope Pius X -
We anathematize those who presume to teach or explain any other creed.
-- Pope Vigilius -
Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.
-- Ramakrishna -
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A man really believes not what he recites in his creed, but only the things he is ready to die for.
-- Richard Wurmbrand -
Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.
-- Rob Bell -
Consider this: there is not a single word in [the Sermon on the Mount] about what to believe, only words about what to do. It is a behavioral manifesto, not a propositional one. Yet three centuries later, when the Nicene Creed became the official oath of Christendom, there was not a single word in it about what to do, only words about what to believe!
-- Robin Meyers -
We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.
-- Samuel Hopkins Adams -
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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?
-- Scott Stapp -
My problems were not what ended Creed.
-- Scott Stapp -
Creed's sound is my sound.
-- Scott Stapp -
I was a Christian in Creed, but nobody ever asked me.
-- Scott Stapp -
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Creeds are not straitjackets, but guardrails that keep us safe.
-- Stephen Nichols -
This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
-- T. E. Lawrence -
To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.
-- Theodore Roosevelt -
Men and women existed before creeds; love is the only religion.
-- Rosa Campbell Praed -
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A scientific theory is a tool and not a creed.
-- Joseph John Thomson
