Creed Quotes

374 Creed quotes by 272 unique authors

An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Do not praise your own faith exclusively so that you disbelieve all the rest. If you do this you will miss much good. Nay, you… — Ibn Arabi
Consider this: there is not a single word in [the Sermon on the Mount] about what to believe, only words about what to do. It… — Robin Meyers
Once, once for all, if you would save your heart from breaking, learn this lesson once for all you must cease, in this world, to… — James Anthony Froude
Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear. — James Anthony Froude
The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against the… — James Anthony Froude
It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with. — James Anthony Froude
Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds… — William E. Gladstone
Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service -… — John Galsworthy
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal. — Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. — Mahatma Gandhi
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny… — Charles Caleb Colton
We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately… — Dorothy Day
There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer. — E. M. Forster
I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is… — Larry Hagman
In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color,… — Ernie Harwell
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do… — Robert A. Heinlein
A man's action is only a picture book of his creed. — Arthur Helps
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. — Thomas Huxley
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus. — E. Stanley Jones
This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought. — T.E. Lawrence
It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as… — T.E. Lawrence
A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere… — Dwight L. Moody
People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a… — P.J. O'Rourke
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot… — George Orwell

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