Creeds Quotes

Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.

There is more truth in honest doubt, Believe me, than in all the creeds.

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

True American Liberalism utterly denies the whole creed of socialism.

Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces or shrines. It has no sin, divine judgment, forbidden words, prayer, worship, prophecy, group privileges, or anointed 'holy' leaders. Atheists don't believe in a transcendent world or supernatural afterlife. Most important, there is no orthodoxy in atheism.

The creed of sacrifice is a morality for the immoral.

An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

'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.

The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

Love's creed is separate from all religions.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

… if we are a national party, it must be, as I think, because we profess a truly national creed.

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

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.

There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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