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• The only thing you believe in is the thing you believe in enough to practice. Your creed is your deed.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Believe, Practice, Deeds

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• There must be no division by class hatred, whether this hatred be that of creed against creed, nationality against nationality, section against section, or men of one social or industrial condition against men of another social and industrial condition. We must ever judge each individual on his own conduct and merits, and not on his membership in any class, whether that class be based on theological, social, or industrial considerations.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Class, Judging

  Theodore Roosevelt (1913). “Theodore Roosevelt, an Autobiography”

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• 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

  Believe, Revolution Founding Fathers, Founding America

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.241

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• It doesn't matter what blood or race or creed or color. Love is love and it breaks all boundaries and you just see it right away.

  Michael Jackson

  Love Is, Race, Blood

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• As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another to scoff, I conclude ... that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Moving, Men, Mind

  "Theological-Political Treatise" by Baruch Spinoza, (Preface), 1670.

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• World peace and brotherhood are based on a common understanding of the contributions and cultures of all races and creeds

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Race, Understanding, Brotherhood

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• Besides, we weren't made to battle villains, because there weren't any. No nation, creed, or race was any better or worse than another; all were flawed, all were equally doomed to suffering, mostly because they couldn't see that they were all alike. Mortals might have been contemptible, true, but not evil entirely. They did enjoy killing one another and frequently came up with ingenious excuses for doing so on a grand scale-religions, economic theories, ethnic pride-but we couldn't condemn them for it, as it was in their mortal natures and they were too stupid to know any better.

  Kage Baker

  Stupid, Pride, Race

  Kage Baker (2005). “In the Garden of Iden”, p.51, Macmillan

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• It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, Sex, Fire

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• Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Men, Action

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• No religion is absolutely perfect. Yet not only do we fight for religion, but also are we often willing to sacrifice our lives for it. And what we hopelessly fail to do is to live it. A true religion is that which has no caste, no creed, no colour. It is but an all-uniting and all-pervading embrace.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Fighting, Sacrifice, Perfect

  "Mother India's Lighthouse: India's Spiritual Leaders". Book by Sri Chinmoy, 1971.

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• When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Past, Compassion, Names

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.181, Macmillan

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• The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Philosophy, Ideas, Scripture

  Sri Aurobindo, Aurobindo Ghose (1993). “The Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice”, p.352, Lotus Press

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• A married person does not live in isolation. He or she has made a promise, a pledge, a vow, to another person. Until that vow is fulfilled and the promise is kept, the individual is in debt to his marriage partner. That is what he owes. 'You owe it to yourself' is not a valid excuse for breaking a marriage vow but a creed of selfishness.

  R. C. Sproul

  Promise, Selfishness, Doe

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• Love's creed is separate from all religions.

  Rumi

  Love

  "What goes round..." by William Dalrymple, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2005.

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• Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive state of mind; Praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul. Pessimism is at best an emotional half-holiday; Joy is the uproarious labor by which all things live? Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Grief, Holiday

  "Orthodoxy". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Chapter VIII. "The Romances of Orthodoxy", 1908.

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• Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Sadness, Men

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of inextinguishable hatred for one another.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Hatred, Religion

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• In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying to that man that he has no right to exist. You are in a real way depriving him of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, denying in his case the very creed of his society.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jobs, Real, Men

  Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). “The trumpet of conscience”, HarperCollins

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• Where you find the attraction for lust and wealth considerably diminished, to whatever creed he may belong, know that his inner spirit is awakening.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Lust, May, Awakening

  Swami Vivekananda (1976). “Awakened India”

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• Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Thinking, Religion, Gardening

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.360, Library of America

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• The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such wisdom as God gives mankind - men and women who are just, and understanding, and generous to others - men and women who are capable of disciplining themselves. For they are the rulers and they must rule themselves.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Strong, Men, Self

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13”, p.378, Best Books on

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• The actions of bad men produce only temporary evil, the actions of good men only temporary good ; and eventually the good and the evil altogether subside, are neutralized by subsequent generations, absorbed by the incessant movements of future ages. But the discoveries of great men never leave us; they are immortal; they contain those eternal truths which survive the shock of empires, outlive the struggles of rival creeds, and witness the decay of successive religions.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Struggle, Science, Men

  Henry Thomas Buckle (1865). “History of Civilization in England: In Five Volumes”, p.208

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• The moment you think creed and form and ceremony the "be-all" and "end-all", then you are in bondage. Take part in them to help others, but take care they do not become a bondage.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Helping Others, Thinking, Care

  Swami Vivekananda (2001). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  History, Poetry Is

  Thomas Carlyle (2007). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.17, Modern Library

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• True American Liberalism utterly denies the whole creed of socialism.

  Herbert Hoover

  Socialism, Deny, Liberalism

  Herbert Hoover (1934). “Challenge Liberty”

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