Creeds Quotes

• Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you may keep it to the end.

  Phillips Brooks

  Change, God, Opinion

  "The Purpose and Use of Comfort".

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• In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Eye, Agreement

  "Thinking Outside The Church : 110 Ways to Connect with Your Spiritual Nature". Book by Jennifer Leigh Selig (p. 53), 2004.

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• It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.

  Martin Sheen

  Catholic, Enemy, Church

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• This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.

  William James

  Oneness, Differences, Achievement

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.378, Library of America

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• I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Beauty, Art, Blessed

  The Doctor's Dilemma (1911) act 4

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• The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion... Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on the grounds of ability.

  Tom Lehrer

  Funny, Military, Army

  "Introduction to 'It Makes a Fellow Proud to be a Soldier'". CD Audio "An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer", March 20-21, 1959.

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

  Berthold Auerbach

  Abstract, Institutions, Judaism

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• 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

  Animal, Race, People

  Harry S. Truman, William Hillman (1984). “Harry S. Truman in his own words: by William Hillman ; pictures by Alfred Wagg”, Outlet

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• There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Inspirational, Faith, Honesty

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 96

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• I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Philosophy, Party, Men

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.410, Cambridge University Press

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• What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Beautiful, Joy

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.772, GENERAL PRESS

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

  Shane Koyczan

  Voice, Rifles, Jackets

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• These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Religion, Morality

  "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, August 11, 1928.

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• I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.

  Frank Knox

  Tolerance, Progress, Quality

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• I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.

  Frank Knox

  Forgiveness, Believe, Heart

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• When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.

  Ronald Knox

  Believe, Doe, Racist

  'Absolute and Abitofhell' (1913)

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• You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

  Christopher Hampton

  Lying, Believe, Two

  1970 The Philanthropist.

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• No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then, only in following openly-declared purposes , and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Birthday, Lying

  "The Complete Works of John Ruskin".

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• The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles.

  Jim Ryun

  Loyalty, Country, Race

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• 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

  Ordinary, Literature, Vegetarian

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Art raises its head where creeds relax.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Relax, Raises

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender.

  Mills Lane

  Race, Color, People

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• And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

  Samuel Butler

  Reading, Science, Light

  "The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition".

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• It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Promise, Curiosity, Literature

  "Put Out More Flags". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1942.

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• The time has come to repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' It is the right thing to do. Every American should have the opportunity to serve their country, regardless of race, sex, creed, or sexual orientation.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Country, Sex, Opportunity

  "Senator Feinstein Supports Stronger Military Via Bill to End 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell'" by Craig Newmark, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2010.

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