Creeds Quotes - Page 2

• Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

  Clancy Brown

  Color, Political, Atrocities

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Faith, Thoughtful, Doubt

  John Lancaster Spalding (1895). “Means and Ends of Education”

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• The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

  Federica Montseny

  Liberty, Elements, Dignity

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• A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.

  Sally Kirkland

  Awards, Race, Color

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• There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  Fannie Flagg

  Faith, Believe, Doubt

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.777, Random House

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• It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Men, Sea, Mind

  "The Evolution of A Revolt". The Army Quarterly and Defence Journal, October 1920.

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• If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

  George Aiken

  Morning, Race, Color

  "Personal Quotes/ Did you know?". www.imdb.com.

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• I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

  William Howard Taft

  Believe, Religion, Atheism

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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 of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

  Irving Babbitt

  Humanity, Desire, Progress

  Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”

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• Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.

  John Galsworthy

  Real, Struggle, Atheism

  John Galsworthy (2015). “The Forsyte Saga Complete Edition: The Forsyte Saga + A Modern Comedy + End of the Chapter + On Forsyte ‘Change (A Prequel to Forsyte Saga): Complete Nine Novels”, p.2298, e-artnow

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• Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Simple, Men, Clothes

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

  E. M. Forster

  Lying, Suffering, Atheism

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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

  Herbert Read

  Emotional, Past, Intellectual

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Jogging, Lasts

  Defense against charge of sedition, Shahi Bag, India, 18 Mar. 1922

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• A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

  Arthur Helps

  Book, Men, Action

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• Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Jesus, Character, Sublime

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• Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is, letting oneself be "tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of doctrine," seems the only attitude that can cope with modern times.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Attitude, Teaching, Wind

  "Homily of His Eminence Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Dean of the College of Cardinals". Remarks by Pope Benedict XVI during a Mass at St. Peter's Basilica before the conclave of cardinals, www.vatican.va. April 18, 2005.

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• Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week.

  Phillips Brooks

  Fog, Opinion, Week

  "The Purpose and Use of Comfort".

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• I was a Christian in Creed, but nobody ever asked me.

  Scott Stapp

  Christian, Euthanasia

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• The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.

  Helen Keller

  Ideas, Brotherhood, Dawn

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Happiness, Laughter

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

  Joseph McCabe

  Dark, Drawing, Age

  Joseph McCabe (1929). “The Story of Religious Controversy”

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• We live in the best of all possible worlds

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Optimistic

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (2008). “Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards

  Walter Bagehot

  Civilization, Culture, Firsts

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.74

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• I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark's happier. I'm sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I've offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness.

  Scott Stapp

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Thinking

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