Creeds Quotes · Page 5

A man really believes not what he recites in his creed, but only the things he is ready to die for.

— Richard Wurmbrand

Men and women existed before creeds; love is the only religion.

— Rosa Campbell Praed

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

— Anonymous

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

— Mary Augusta Ward

They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.

— Joseph Silk

I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.

— Helen Keller

Ours is a vast country, many languages, many castes, creeds, religions.

— Mamata Banerjee

Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the…

— Dweezil Zappa

The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and…

— William E. Gladstone

How will it end?... a vision of a universal religion, which will embrace all creeds; a universal government which will embrace all…

— Carl H. Claudy

We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology

— James Luther Adams

Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between Church and State, and that in my action as President of the…

— James K. Polk

War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.

— Laurence Overmire

What builds character? It's a commitment to integrity, hard work, honor and keeping your word. All of that comes straight out of…

— Bill Courtney

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered…

— Oscar Wilde

Our challenge is to give what account we can of what becomes of life in the solar system, this corner of the…

— George Wald

Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers of our casual creeds, Who never deeply felt, nor clearly will'd,…

— Matthew Arnold

A man should know about himself two or three things: whether he is a coward; whether he is an honest man or…

— Joseph Brodsky

We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor…

— Jane Addams

The universalism of Islam, in its all-embracing creed, is imposed on the believers as a continuous process of warfare, psychological and political,…

— Majid Khadduri

The world was arrogant and self-satisfied, but behind all this confidence there was an uneasy sense of impending disaster. The old creeds,…

— John Buchan

Here is my creed: I believe in one God, the Creator of the universe. That he governs it by his providence. That…

— W. Cleon Skousen

The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope…

— Anonymous

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where…

— Learned Hand

Auroville (City of Dawn) is an 'experimental' township in Viluppuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India near Puducherry in South…

— Mirra Alfassa

Marxism was the social creed and the social cry of those classes who knew by their miseries that the creed of the…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!

— Kabir

Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening.

— Dana Gioia

We anathematize those who presume to teach or explain any other creed.

— Pope Vigilius

Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve.

— Robert Redford

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

— Ansel Adams

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

— Shane Koyczan

Let us reject the spirit of making proselytes to particular creeds by any other means than persuasion.

— Noah Webster

Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds.

— Michelle Obama