Creeds Quotes - Page 5

• A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

  Havelock Ellis

  Inspirational, Men, Belief

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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• We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.

  Billy Graham

  Reading, Godly, World

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Jul 26, 2015

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• I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

  Speech at Civil Rights March in Washington, 28 Aug. 1963, in New York Times 29 Aug. 1963, p. 21

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• ... it is better to study how to live rather than how to die; ... it is better to have a religion of deeds rather than a religion of creeds; ... it is better to work for humanity than for God.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Humanity, Deeds, Study

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.181, SUNY Press

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• All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.

  Daniel Webster

  Atheism, Uncertain, Evidence

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• Since it is no longer permissible to disparage any single faith or creed, let us start disparaging all of them... A religion is a belief system with no basis in reality whatever. Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

  Martin Amis

  Religious, Reality, Atheism

  "Political Correctness: Robert Bly and Philip Larkin". Martin Amis' lecture at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, iop.harvard.edu. January 30, 1997.

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• Whenever there is an organized movement to persuade people to believe or do something, whenever an effort is made to "propagate" a creed or set of opinions or convictions or to make people act as we want them to act, the means employed are called propaganda.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Believe, Mean, People

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Religious, Father

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• Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming contradictions, redaction and myths passed off as verifiable history.

  A. N. Wilson

  Christian, Listening, Church

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• Human hopes and human creeds; have their root in human needs.

  Eugene Fitch Ware

  Roots, Needs, Humans

  Eugene Fitch Ware (1899). “Some of the Rhymes of Ironquill [pseud.]: (A Book of Moods.) ...”

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• The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.

  Herbert Spencer

  Emotional, Intellectual, Atheism

  Herbert Spencer (1904). “An Autobiography: By Herbert Spencer”

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• No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional shield deliberately planned and inscribed for the benefit of every human being subject to our Constitution - of whatever race, creed or persuasion.

  Hugo Black

  Life, Responsibility, Race

  "Chambers v. Florida, 309 U.S. 227". Writing for the court, 1940.

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• The soul that feeds on books alone -
  I count that soul exceeding small
  That lives alone by book and creed, -
  A soul that has not learned to read.

  Joaquin Miller

  Book, Soul

  "The Larger College". "In Classic Shades, and Other Poems". Book by Joaquin Miller, 1890.

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• Angels transcend every religion, every philosophy, every creed. In fact Angels have no religion as we know it... Their existence precedes every religious system that has ever existed on Earth.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Religious, Philosophy, Angel

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• Not all Masons are obligated on the Christian Bible. Masonry is universal and men of every creed are eligible for membership so long as they accept the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man. Therefore, the candidate should be obligated on the Book of the Sacred Law which he accepts as such since his obligation is a solemn and binding one.

  George Washington

  Christian, Book, Men

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• If any doubt has arisen as to me, my country [Virginia] will have my political creed in the form of a "Declaration &c." which I was lately directed to draw. This will give decisive proof that my own sentiment concurred with the vote they instructed us to give.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Virginia, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.198, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American. All privileges based on wealth, and all enmity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American-both of them equally so. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, America, Safety

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• To be free you must afford freedom to your neighbor, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin, and that sometimes, for some, is very difficult.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Race, Color, Justice

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• Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.

  Herman Melville

  Women, Religion, Speak

  Herman Melville (2016). “Redburn.His First Voyage”, p.296, Herman Melville

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• I want to drink life to the dregs, to enlarge myself to the absolute limits of my being - and to strive for a society in which everyone -regardless of race, creed, color and especially religious conviction - has the same exhilarating raison d'être, and the same opportunity to fulfill it.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Religious, Opportunity, Race

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• We declare that no one is permitted to introduce, or to describe, or to compare, or to study, or otherwise to teach another faith. Whoever presumes to introduce or teach or pass on another creed . . . or whoever presumes to introduce a novel doctrine . . . We declare to be anathematized.

  Pope Agatho

  Doctrine, Study, Introducing

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• How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?

  John Maynard Keynes

  Quality, Advancement, Mud

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

  Jane Addams

  Women, Believe, Desire

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.12, Youcanprint

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• Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion?

  Bertrand Russell

  Errors, Speech, Opinion

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• Methinks some creeds in vestries and churches do forget the hunter wrapped in furs by the Great Slave Lake, and that the Esquimauxsledges are drawn by dogs, and in the twilight of the northern night the hunter does not give over to follow the seal and walrus on the ice. They are of sick and diseased imaginations who would toll the world's knell so soon. Cannot these sedentary sects do better than prepare the shrouds and write the epitaphs of those other busy living men? The practical faith of all men belies the preacher's consolation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dog, Twilight, Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (1906). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, ed. by B. Torrey, 1837-1846, 1850-Nov. 3, 1861”

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