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Quotes About Creed

A few minutes later, she was once again riding her own horse. Deciding to take the lead, she nudged the mare into a trot, and as she passed Brodick and Ramsey, she called out, You used trickery. Yes, I did, he admitted. Are you angry with me? She laughed again. I don't get angry. I get even. Unbeknownst to her, she had just recited the Buchanan creed.
~ Julie Garwood
beliefs and doctrines are not as important in Islam as they are in Christianity. Like Judaism, Islam is a religion that requires people to live in a certain way, rather than to accept certain credal propositions. It stresses orthopraxy rather than orthodoxy.
~ Karen Armstrong
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
A man lives by believing something.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.
~ William Greenough Thayer Shedd
Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the worst of created beings.
~ Georg Ebers
Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God.
~ Lord Byron
Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear.
~ James Anthony Froude
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.
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?
~ Scott Stapp
People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.
~ Helen Keller
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery..
~ Winston S. Churchill
The creed of greed:Great Revenue Every Everlasting Day.(IN BANKS WE TRUST)
~ Anthony T. Hincks
It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.
~ Jethro Tull
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
How many a world-embracing creed has sprung from a tiny contradiction in terms!
~ WILLIAM ARCHER
One of the ironies, as some have observed, is that the secular project has itself become a religion, pursued with religious fervor. It is taking on all the trappings of a religion – including inquisitions and excommunication. Those who defy the creed risk a figurative burning at the stake – social, educational, and professional ostracism and exclusion waged through lawsuits and savage social media campaigns.
~ William Barr
His diaries had begun to assume something of the knowingness of incipient middle age; at times, indeed, he was in danger of becoming priggish and opinionated. As with many later European voyagers, travel in this part of the world, far from broadening the mind, seemed instead to lead to a blanket distrust of anyone of a different creed, colour or class.
~ William Dalrymple
The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation… surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed.
~ William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Be strong in the faith of this truth, make it an article of your creed; with the same faith you believe that there is a God, believe also this God's almighty power is thy sure friend, and then improve it to thy best and advantage.
~ William Gurnall
Christians and Jews often taunted the Arabs about their polytheistic beliefs and their lack of an overarching creed and an afterlife. Consequently, a sense of religious inferiority arose among the desert dwellers, along with a pent-up desire for a comprehensive belief system of their own.
~ William J. Bernstein
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.
~ Benjamin Franklin