Creeds Quotes - Page 15

• 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 member of his church stands guard over his brain with a creed, like a club, in his hand. He knows that he is not expected to search after the truth, but that he is employed to defend the creed. Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Thinking, Hands, Justice

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.103, Library of Alexandria

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• I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving... I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion - I have shudder'd at it - I shudder no more - I could be martyr'd for my Religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that - I could die for you. My creed is Love and you are its only tenet - You have ravish'd me away by a Power I cannot resist.

  John Keats

  Love, Crush, Men

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• Here is my creed: I believe in one God, the Creator of the universe. That he governs it by his providence. That he ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to him is in doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound religion. --Benjamin Franklin

  W. Cleon Skousen

  Children, Believe, Men

  W. Cleon Skousen “The Making of America”, Verity Publishing

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• Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have a sacred and inexpressible charm about it that is very satisfying to Jesus. You must learn to "go out" through your convictions, creeds, or experiences until you come to the point in your faith where there is nothing between yourself and God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Attitude, Sacred

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.25, Discovery House

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• If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth and claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass.

  David Mitchell

  Believe, Ocean, Race

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• Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, Running, Hate

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “The Real Roosevelt: His Forceful and Fearless Utterances on Various Subjects”

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• We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology

  James Luther Adams

  Religious, Justice, Movement

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• Restricted immigration is not an offensive but purely a defensive action. It is not adopted in criticism of others in the slightest degree, but solely for the purpose of protecting ourselves. We cast no aspersions on any race or creed, but we must remember that every object of our institutions of society and government will fail unless America be kept American.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Race, Government, America

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• Yehudi Menuhin was a citizen of the world in the fullest sense - one whose vision and culture gave him a deep empathy with fellow human beings of every creed and color.

  Kofi Annan

  Color, Empathy, Vision

  "Yehudi Menuhin Revered as Musician, Humanitarian / Admired by Einstein, gifted artist shared himself with the world" by Jesse Hamlin, www.sfgate.com. March 13, 1999.

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• I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity; and as I did not then in the least doubt the strict and literal truth of every word in the Bible, I soon persuaded myself that our Creed must be fully accepted.

  Charles Darwin

  Country, Book, Doubt

  Charles Darwin “Charles Darwin: An Anthology”, Transaction Publishers

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• Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up no single narrow path or gate of salvation; it was less a creed or cult than a continuously enlarging tradition of the Godward endeavour of the human spirit. An immense many-sided many-staged provision for a spiritual self-building and self-finding, it had some right to speak of itself by the only name it knew, the eternal religion, Sanatana Dharma.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Self, Names

  "Indian Spirituality and Life - 1" by Sri Aurobindo in "Arya", intyoga.online.fr. August 1919.

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• The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation on this planet demands that while the upholders of any creed are free to adopt their own existential absolutes, the right of others to do the same is thereby rendered implicit and sacrosanct. Thus the creed of inquiry, of knowledge and exchange of ideas, must be upheld as an absolute, as ancient and eternal as any other.

  Wole Soyinka

  Our World, Ideas, Peaceful

  FaceBook post by Wole Soyinka from Apr 07, 2015

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• Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not know.' Upon these questions, this is the creed of intelligence.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Death, Destiny, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4260, Library of Alexandria

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• 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 been appealed to in matters of religion, religion has advanced - so that now the object of intelligent religionists is to adopt a creed that will bear the test and criticism of science.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Intelligent, Religion, Criticism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (2004). “Superstition and Other Essays”

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• The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Attitude, School, Presidential

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• Now I have no caste, no creed,
  I am no more what I am!

  Kabir

  Castes, Belonging

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• I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand what they believe. They may even wish not to have their beliefs disturbed by thought.

  Mortimer Adler

  Religious, Believe, Intellectual

  "A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror: Further Autobiographical Reflections of a Philosopher at Large".

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• If the Declaration of Independence states our creed, there can be no right to abortion, since it means denying the most fundamental right of all to the unborn child, the right to life.

  Alan Keyes

  Children, Mean, Abortion

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• So my reaction to hearing this corny-ass, horrible song ["With Arms Wide Open" by Creed] is violent, uncontrollable, sustained weeping.

  Michael Ian Black

  Song, Fatherhood, Arms

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• We Unitarian Universalists have inherited a magnificent theological legacy. In a sweeping answer to creeds that divide the human family, Unitarianism proclaims that we spring from a common source; Universalism, that we share a common destiny.

  Forrest Church

  Spring, Destiny, Answers

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• I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.

  John Henry Newman

  Men, Giving, Arrogant

  John Henry Newman (2000). “Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England: Addressed to the Brothers of the Oratory in the Summer of 1851”, p.390, Gracewing Publishing

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• Libertarianism is what you probably already believe: Libertarian values are American values. Libertarianism is America's heritage of liberty, patriotism and honest work to build a future for your family. It's the idea that being free and independent is a great way to live. That each of us is a unique individual, with great potential. That you own yourself, and that you have the right to decide what's best for you. Americans of all races and creeds built a great and prosperous country with these libertarian ideals. Let's use them to build America's future.

  David Bergland

  Country, Believe, Independent

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• Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct. Let modesty be compassion, good manners fasting, you should be a Muslim the like of this. Let good deeds be your Kaaba and truth be your mentor. Your Kalma be your creed and prayer, God would then vindicate your honour.

  Guru Nanak

  Letting Go, Prayer, Compassion

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• I want a laitywho know their creed so well, that they can
  give an account of it, who know so much of history that
  they can defend it.

  John Henry Newman

  Giving, Want, Wells

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• The quest for this unwearied peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teaching of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and you will discover that they base their diverse doctrines on the foundation of a large spiritual serenity. Analyze the prayers of troubled, overborne mankind of all creeds, in every age-and their petitions come down to the irreducible common denominators of daily bread and inward peace. Grown men do not pray for vain trifles. When they lift up their hearts and voices in the valley of tears they ask for strength and courage and understanding.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Spiritual, Peace, Prayer

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