Quotes about creeds




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"Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, whose vague resolves never have been fulfilled."

Arnold, Matthew on creeds    Share


"Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, or idlest froth amid the boundless main."

Bronte, Emily on creeds    Share

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

Ellis, Havelock on creeds    Share

"As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on creeds    Share

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

Forster, Edward M. on creeds    Share

"I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth."

Hampton, Christopher on creeds    Share

"When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected I believe to One does feel."

Knox, Ronald on creeds    Share

"If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics --a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage --surely that proves that you are in the right?"

Orwell, George on creeds    Share

"I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy."

Paine, Thomas on creeds    Share

"I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen."

Shaw, George Bernard on creeds    Share

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