Creeds Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and traditions is to keep us in touch with the obvious errors.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Stupid, Errors, Ideas

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• Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that slavery is a violation of the rights of man.

  Elbert Guillory

  Party, Men, Simple

  "‘Free at Last’: La. State Senator Explains Why He Recently Left the ‘Government Plantation’ & Joined GOP in Powerful Video". www.theblaze.com. June 18, 2013.

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• We call upon all communities to be tolerant, to reject prejudice based on caste, creed, sect, colour, religion or agenda to ensure freedom and equality for women so they can flourish. We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Color, Community, Prejudice

  Malala Yousafzai's speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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• 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

  Rainbow, Harmony, Distinction

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• Creeds are definitions of what it means to be a Christian. They are fences that, albeit imperfectly, seek to separate sheep from goats.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Christian, Mean, Sheep

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• Why do I dance? Dance is my medicine. It’s the scream which eases for a while the terrible frustration common to all human beings who because of race, creed, or color, are ‘invisible’. Dance is the fist with which I fight the sickening ignorance of prejudice.

  Pearl Primus

  Dance, Ignorance, Fighting

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• We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practice the very opposite of the democratic creed.... This strange dichotomy, this agonizing gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of man's earthly pilgrimage.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Commitment, Opposites, Practice

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populist terms. They attack news based on verifiable fact for its liberal bias, for, in essence, failing to be objective, and promise a return to genuine objectivity.

  Chris Hedges

  Objectivity, Essence, Promise

  Chris Hedges (2013). “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress”, p.76, Nation Books

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• We are born in relation, we live in relation, we die in relation. There is, literally, no such human place as simply "inside myself." Nor is any person, creed, ideology, or movement entirely "outside myself."

  Carter Heyward

  Community, Movement, Born

  Carter Heyward (1989). “Touching Our Strength: The Erotic as Power and the Love of God”, Harper San Francisco

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• When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body? Until the spirit of love for our fellow people, regardless of race, color, or creed, shall fill the world, making real in our lives and our deeds the actuality of human brother- and sisterhood, until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

  Helen Keller

  Brother, Real, Responsibility

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• Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again rally and recall the people; they fix too for the people the principles of their political creed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Passion, People, Political

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.441

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• 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

  Views, Doe, Indifference

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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• As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As then baptism has been given us by the Savior, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, so, in accordance with our baptism, we make the confession of the creed, and our doxology in accordance with our creed.

  Saint Basil

  Father, Son, Names

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• Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.

  Annie Besant

  Fashion, Thinking, Atheism

  M V Srinivasa Aiyangar, Annie Besant (1915). “An Open Letter to Mrs. Annie Besant: Being a Reply to Her Attacks on Hinduism”

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• I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion-- I have shuddered at it, I shudder no more. I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.

  John Keats

  Love, Romantic, Men

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.986, Delphi Classics

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• When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Believe, Belief, Dies

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.249, Discovery House

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• ... and we are not alone in this slavery. there are millions of others throughout the world, of all colors and races and creeds. this we must remember. there are many of our people who hate the poor of the white race, and they hate us. the people in this town living by the river who work in the mills. people who are almost as much in need as we are ourselves. this hatred is a great evil, and no good can ever come from it... the injustice of need must bring us all together and not separate us. we must remember that we all make the things of this earth of value because of labor.

  Carson McCullers

  Hate, Race, Color

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.191, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, creator of the Universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be worshiped. That the most acceptable service we render him is doing good to his other children. That the soul of Man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Children, Believe, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (1905). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself. Now First Edited from Original Manuscripts and from His Printed Correspondence and Other Writings”

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• There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.

  Ben Jonson

  Doctrine

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The Works: In 9 Volumes. ... containing Underwoods, translations, &c. Discoveries. English grammar. Jonsonus viribus”, p.176

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• It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Death, Modest, Mockery

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1845). “Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments”, p.8

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• True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.

  Louis Nizer

  Positive, Insightful, Spirituality

  Louis Nizer (1978). “Reflections Without Mirrors: An Autobiography of the Mind”, Doubleday Books

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• Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all - every gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability.

  Bella Abzug

  Women, Race, Age

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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

  Believe, Men, Ready

  Richard Wurmbrand (2017). “Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.62, David C Cook

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