Creed Quotes
374 quotes by 280 authors
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress,…
— Irving Babbitt
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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…
— Saint Basil
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Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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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…
— Annie Besant
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No matter who you are, no matter what your color, creed, how you choose to pray or who you choose to love, that if you…
— Cory Booker
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If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes…
— George Aiken
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The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.
— Joseph Brodsky
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I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.
— Charlotte Bronte
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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
— Samuel Butler
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Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy Spirit, and make…
— Tony Campolo
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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
— Winston Churchill
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Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions.
— Edward Abbey
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering…
— Charlotte Gray
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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront…
— Ajahn Brahm
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The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.
— Andrew Dickson White
Who Wrote These Creed Quotes
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