Let us reject the spirit of making proselytes to particular creeds by any other means than persuasion.
An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.
Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.
Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error.
A creed is an ossified metaphor.
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
The following story is one which he related recently regarding the practice of fault - finding among creeds: A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. . . .
Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.
As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.
And if we are to open employment opportunities in this country for members of all races and creeds, then the Federal Government must set an example. The President himself must set the key example. I am not going to promise a Cabinet post or any other post to any race or ethnic group. That is racism in reverse at its worst. So I do not promise to consider race or religion in my appointments if I am successful. I promise only that I will not consider them.
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
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.
Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For if you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics. . . the more you are in the right (and) everybody else should be bullied into thinking otherwise.
Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
Compatibilism amounts to nothing more than an assertion of the following creed: A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.
Love's creed is separate from all religions.
Sekts and creeds ov religion, are like pocket compesses, good enuff tu pinte out the direction, but the nearer the pole yu git thewuss tha wurk.
It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.