Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a…

God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all—no matter…

— Ronald J. Sider

There are a score of great religions in the world, each with scores or hundreds of sects, each with its priestly orders, its complicated…

— Upton Sinclair

Religion is not an end in itself. One's union with God is the ultimate goal. There are so many religions because immature people tend…

— Peace Pilgrim

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.…

— Dan Barker

Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find…

— Radhanath Swami

For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up…

— Sri Aurobindo

The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social,…

— Davis McCaughey

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…

— Baruch Spinoza

People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about man’s past…the past shows clearly that we all have…

— Louis Leakey

As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.

— John Ruskin

But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to…

— Thomas Paine

When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body? Until the…

— Helen Keller

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation…

— Charlotte Bronte