Quotes with creed

  • There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
  • I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
  • If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
  • A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
  • Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.
  • Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.
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  • Charles Caleb Colton He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Harry S. Truman The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi 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
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Dwight L. Moody A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Lord George Byron And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Phillips Brooks Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Bertrand Russell Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bill Frist From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Anita Roddick I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Thomas Paine I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • George Orwell If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Evelyn Waugh It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • William Pitt Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
    William Pitt
    British statesman (1759 - 1806)
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  • W. H. Auden Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • John Galsworthy Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.
    John Galsworthy
    British writer, playwright (1867 - 1933)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Agnes Repplier The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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