'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.
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.
From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.
This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.
Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!
Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.
Since the earliest times it is as the exploiter that the Jew has been known amongst his fellow men of all races and creeds. Moreover, he has persistently shown himself ungrateful. . . The Jews have always formed a rebellious element in every state.
The best creed we can have is charity toward the creeds of others.
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.
Men and women existed before creeds; love is the only religion.
The Christian life is stamped by 'moral spontaneous originality,' consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus Christ was, viz. , that of inconsistency. But Jesus Christ was always consistent to God, and the Christian must be consistent to the life of the Son of God in him, not consistent to hard and fast creeds. Men pour themselves into creeds, and God has to blast them out of their prejudices before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.
Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.
When the old creeds are threadbare, and worn through, And all too narrow for the broadening soul, Give me the fine, firm texture of the new, Fair, beautiful and whole!
Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him.
It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed.
As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs. And he clothes them with thunders and beauty, He clothes them with music and fire, Seeing not, as he bows by their altars, That he worships his own desire.
Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.
Seek the underlying harmonies of love and the overarching rainbow of hope, rather than the surface distinctions of creeds and of sects. Work for peace in religion.
Creeds are not straitjackets, but guardrails that keep us safe.