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Creed Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
- This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only…
- While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only good. The time…
- Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters of science, science was retarded; and just to the extent that science has…
- Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not know.'…
- Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed…
- The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating…
- The Unitarian Church has done more than any other church to substitute character for creed, and to say that a man should be judged by…
- They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.
- Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance as the title…
- Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. In this creed there will be but one word -- Liberty.
- Not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows a majority of his congregation think otherwise. He knows that every…
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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… — Irving Babbitt
- As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As then baptism… — Saint Basil
- Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the… — Annie Besant
- No matter who you are, no matter what your color, creed, how you choose to pray or who you choose to love,… — Cory Booker
- If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find… — George Aiken
- The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed. — Joseph Brodsky
- I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me. — Charlotte Bronte
- The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. — Samuel Butler
- Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy… — Tony Campolo
- He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt. — Gilbert K. Chesterton