Creeds Quotes

A scientific theory is a tool and not a creed.

A man really believes not what he recites in his creed, but only the things he is ready to die for.

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

We have come to a place now where our search for Truth must no longer be for the rewards; it must no longer be our seeking a creed to follow, but it must be our living a life.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.

'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.

Consider this: there is not a single word in [the Sermon on the Mount] about what to believe, only words about what to do. It is a behavioral manifesto, not a propositional one. Yet three centuries later, when the Nicene Creed became the official oath of Christendom, there was not a single word in it about what to do, only words about what to believe!

Creeds are not straitjackets, but guardrails that keep us safe.

This is my voice. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

Our Jewishness is not a creed, it is ourself, our totality. Indeed, it may be fairly said that the surest evidence of your lack of seriousness in religion is the fact that your religions are not national, that you are not compromised and dedicated, en masse, to the faith.

A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best.

Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

A cat is a cat. She has no race creed or collar.

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

There are no creeds in mathematics.

True American Liberalism utterly denies the whole creed of socialism.

The proposition that the principal articles of the Apostles' Creed did not have the same meaning for the Christians of the earliest times as they have for Christians of our time is hereby condemned and proscribed as erroneous.

There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.

Nihilism is but the other side of conventionalism; its creed consists of negations of the current so-called positive values, to which it remains bound.

I do not believe in the creed professed by any church that I know of. Each of these churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my part, I disbelieve them all.

Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late.

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.

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.

The creed of sacrifice is a morality for the immoral.

My problems were not what ended Creed.

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

The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop the strongest proselytizing impulse.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

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

She'd stood by that creed. No softness, because the world wasn't soft; lots of laughter, because if you were in on the joke, the joke couldn't be on you; And no wanting what you couldn't take, because the world never gave. Or so she'd thought.

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

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

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

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?

When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.

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

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

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

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

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

A creed is an ossified metaphor.

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

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

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

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.