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Creeds Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are…
- Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.
- Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of…
- Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again…
- I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I…
- I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or…
More Creeds Quotes
- A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt
- Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. — Lord Acton
- Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. — Ansel Adams
- 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
- There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds. — Jeb Bush
- The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. — Samuel Butler