Creeds Quotes - Page 5

• A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

  Havelock Ellis

  Inspirational, Men, Belief

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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• We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.

  Billy Graham

  Reading, Godly, World

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Jul 26, 2015

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• I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

  Speech at Civil Rights March in Washington, 28 Aug. 1963, in New York Times 29 Aug. 1963, p. 21

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• The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.

  Herbert Spencer

  Emotional, Intellectual, Atheism

  Herbert Spencer (1904). “An Autobiography: By Herbert Spencer”

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• Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming contradictions, redaction and myths passed off as verifiable history.

  A. N. Wilson

  Christian, Listening, Church

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• All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.

  Daniel Webster

  Atheism, Uncertain, Evidence

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• ... it is better to study how to live rather than how to die; ... it is better to have a religion of deeds rather than a religion of creeds; ... it is better to work for humanity than for God.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Humanity, Deeds, Study

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.181, SUNY Press

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• Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Religious, Father

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• Human hopes and human creeds; have their root in human needs.

  Eugene Fitch Ware

  Roots, Needs, Humans

  Eugene Fitch Ware (1899). “Some of the Rhymes of Ironquill [pseud.]: (A Book of Moods.) ...”

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• Since it is no longer permissible to disparage any single faith or creed, let us start disparaging all of them... A religion is a belief system with no basis in reality whatever. Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

  Martin Amis

  Religious, Reality, Atheism

  "Political Correctness: Robert Bly and Philip Larkin". Martin Amis' lecture at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, iop.harvard.edu. January 30, 1997.

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• Whenever there is an organized movement to persuade people to believe or do something, whenever an effort is made to "propagate" a creed or set of opinions or convictions or to make people act as we want them to act, the means employed are called propaganda.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Believe, Mean, People

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• To be free you must afford freedom to your neighbor, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin, and that sometimes, for some, is very difficult.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Race, Color, Justice

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• Nobody steals from Creed Bratton and gets away with it. The last person to do this disappeared. His name? Creed Bratton.

  Creed Bratton

  Names, Lasts, Stealing

  "The Office. Crime Aid. Season 5", en.wikiquote.org. 2005-2013.

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• The three most effective incentives to human action may be ... classified as creed, greed and dread. ... In examining the scientist it is perhaps worth while to examine how far he is moved by these three incentives. I think that, rather peculiarly and rather exceptionally, he is very little moved by dread. ... He is in fact essentially a person who has been taught he must be fearless in his dealing with facts.

  Robert Watson-Watt

  Science, Thinking, Effectiveness

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• The following story is one which he related recently regarding the practice of fault - finding among creeds: A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. . . .

  Swami Vivekananda

  Practice, Long, Stories

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• Before the formation of this Constitution it had been affirmed as a self evident truth, in the Declaration of Independence, very deliberately made by the Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled that 'all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights' This declaration of Independence was received and ratified by all the States in the Union & has never been disannuled. May we not from hence conclude, that the doctrine of Liberty and Equality is an article in the political creed of the United States.

  Samuel Adams

  Men, Rights, Self

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• I believe in logic, the sequence of cause and effect, and in science its only begotten son our law, which was conceived by the ancient Greeks, thrived under Isaac Newton, suffered under Albert Einstein...
  That fragment of a 'creed for materialism' which a friend in college had once shown him rose through Donald's confused mind.

  John Brunner

  Confused, Believe, Son

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• I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from, The scent of these armpits aroma finer than prayer, This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds.

  Walt Whitman

  Prayer, Believe, Miracle

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.53, Delphi Classics

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• Proselytism is tolerated by Hinduism. Any man, whether he be a Shudra or Chandala, can expound philosophy even to a Brahmin. The truth can be learnt from the lowest individual, no matter to what caste or creed he belongs.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Philosophy, Men, Matter

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2171, Manonmani Publishers

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• My heart can take on any form:
  A meadow for gazelles,
  A cloister for monks,
  For the idols, sacred ground,
  Ka'ba for the circling pilgrim,
  The tables of the Torah,
  The scrolls of the Quran.
  
  My creed is Love;
  Wherever its caravan turns along the way,
  That is my belief,
  My faith.

  Ibn Arabi

  Heart, Idols, Tables

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• If the Lord wills, we shall make this Math a great centre of harmony. Our Lord is the visible embodiment of the harmony of all ideals. He will be established on earth if we keep alive that spirit of harmony here. We must see to it that people of all creeds and sects, from the Brahmana down to the Chandala, may come here and find their respective ideals manifested.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Math, People, Alive

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.276, Advaita Ashrama

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• No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional shield deliberately planned and inscribed for the benefit of every human being subject to our Constitution - of whatever race, creed or persuasion.

  Hugo Black

  Life, Responsibility, Race

  "Chambers v. Florida, 309 U.S. 227". Writing for the court, 1940.

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• Music is still the one thing that ties people together.
  People can come together from all different religions,
  walks of life, colours, creeds and enjoy the same song.
  That's still the most incredible thing to me about performing live.

  Dave Gahan

  Song, Ties, People

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• Angels transcend every religion, every philosophy, every creed. In fact Angels have no religion as we know it... Their existence precedes every religious system that has ever existed on Earth.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Religious, Philosophy, Angel

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• The lead singer of Creed says he won’t endorse President Obama. Well that settles it -- Obama will not win the 1998 presidential election.

  Stephen Colbert

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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