Creeds Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Download Open image “For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amazing Speed Burns Amazing Creeds Dry Dry Sticks Religious Speed Speed Dry Sticks Sticks Religious
A most burning question of time, though. It burns in every nook and cranny of the ethnological world, burning, bright, brightly, in the fullest… — Adolf Bastian Copy Share Image
“A Christian’s heart for God should be like a teakettle on a flaming stove burner—hot to touch, visibly steaming, and audible.” — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
“If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“And what about the most merciful Christian God, slowly roasting in the fires of hell all those who would not submit? Was He not… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Let us each take up our flaming torches and mount as the blazing fireballs of light that we are and let's burn the skies… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee. — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age. — Margaret Walker Copy Share Image
No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
“My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
“The great thing in this world, is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
“Yet in opinions look not always back,-- Your wake is nothing, mind the coming track; Leave what you've done for what you have to… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
“The Last Leaf I saw him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,-- Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump! — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
“If the wild filly, "Progress," thou wouldst ride, Have young companions ever at thy side; But wouldst thou stride the stanch old mare, "Success,"… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall. A mother's secret love outlives them all. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body? Until the… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about man’s past…the past shows clearly that we all have… — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social,… — Davis McCaughey Copy Share Image
The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second,… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
I believe in an America where the rights that I have described are enjoyed by all, regardless of their race or their creed or… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds and have… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image