Quotes About Creed

One mans cult is another mans religion.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to help make others so.

When people believe that what you believe is what they believe, they turn you into a belief.

My creed is love and you are its only tenet.

Every religion, ideology, and creed has its shadow, and no matter which creed you follow you should acknowledge your shadow

If liberalism, nationalism, Islam, or some novel creed wishes to shape the world of the year 2050, it will need not only to make sense of artificial intelligence, Big Data algorithms, and bioengineering but also to incorporate them into a new and meaningful narrative.

You had to suffer first, before you could connect, before you could see we are all just human, irrespective of race, colour, creed.

Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime, I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low; I live in calm, looking to the end.

My worthiness is all my doubt, His merit all my fear, Contrasting which, my qualities Do lowlier appear ; Lest I should insufficient prove For his beloved need, The chiefest apprehension Within my loving creed. So I, the undivine abode Of his elect content, Conform my soul as 't were a church Unto her sacrament.

The great curse of theology and ecclesiasticisim has always been their tendency to sacrifice large interests to small: Charity to Creed, Unity to Uniformity, Fact to Tradition, Ethics to Dogma.

The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion—its message becomes meaningless.

Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion—its message becomes meaningless.

Writing and conversation were vital for success in the world, Elizabeth sounded the family creed and, like Mary and Abigail when their sons left for Harvard, exhorted: "Committing our thoughts to paper makes us more attentive—more close observers—of everything which obliges us to think." Writing a mother was particularly salubrious.

Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Churchill, Perth

Socialism is bad,' he said, 'jingoism is worse, and the two combined in a kind of debased Italian Fascism is the worst creed ever designed by man.

Secularism and pluralism are two of the defining ethos of Western societies. The former decouples religion from governmental institutions whilst the latter seeks to protect the rights of all citizens to freely practice their creed.

We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.