Creeds Quotes

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms

I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with the Positivists.

Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

My problems were not what ended Creed.

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.

Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds, then there is misery.

From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.

Creed's sound is my sound.

I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point?

Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.

Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.

Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.

When did the lemons learn the same creed as the sun?

When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.

The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings.

If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.

Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.

A creed is an ossified metaphor.

Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.

Hate is a grand, a strong quality! It makes nations, it builds up creeds! If men loved one another what should they need of a Church?

It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.

We anathematize those who presume to teach or explain any other creed.

When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.

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 inextinguishable hatred for one another.

The Working Man's Creed: "A short day is better than a short dollar" .

As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.

A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little'.

I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds.

Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.

There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.

An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.

All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.

I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.

The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and traditions is to keep us in touch with the obvious errors.

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

So many creeds like the weeds in the sod - so many temples, and only one God.

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

America is the only country ever founded on a creed.