"Mr. Cree may be feelin' his oats heap much.

The acquiescence that Oriana expressed to the simple but forcible arguments of the pale-face added to his exasperation; and he was also angry, as well as astonished, to perceive that the young Cree, although he was yet unconvinced, was still a willing listener, and an anxious inquirer as to the creed of his white friend.

Their creed was the product of ages of cruelty and credulity; and it sufficiently bears that stamp.

"Their creed is an odd mixture.

Who, then, can deny that this intolerant creed is a malignant riddle?

As to the notion that religions are the product of human craft and selfishness, he says: "A candid examination of the evidence quite negatives the doctrine maintained by some that creeds are priestly inventions."

Creed having been the quotient of an Apostolic 'pic-nic', to which each of the twelve contributed his several 'symbolum'.

This tribal creed, there can be no doubt, is what they offer us for a talisman to ensure the right ordering of the world.

His creed had been force, supported by quick use of weapons, not law, and it seemed incredible to him that a man who had suffered from the raids of the cattle thieves should not take justice in his own hands when opportunity presented.

Creeds are perhaps a necessity in well-organized ecclesiastical bodies, and are not unreasonable; but it should not be forgotten that they are formulated doctrines made by men, on what is supposed to be the meaning of the Scriptures, and are not consistent with the right of private judgment when pushed out to its ultimate logical consequence.

The creed of the Seljuks was Islam of an Iranian type.

I hope no Protestant would think a man damned for such addition; and if so, then this Creed of Athanasius is at least an unnecessary rule of faith. 'Answer'.

That the Muslim belief possesses institutions such as the reverence for the Kaaba, the rite of Pilgrimage, the acceptance of Mecca as its sacred city, is due to its founder's love of his native place, and the ceremonial of which his own creed was really the inseparable outcome.

A thought soon troubled her delicious reverie, and she inquired: "Peradventure, then, the creed which I have execrated may be truer and better than that which I have professed?"

We are violent when we sustain a government whose creed is violence.

Their week-day creed is the law of Might; Self is their idol, and Gain their right: Though, now and then, God sees some faithful disciples still Breasting the current to do His will.

Our creed is 'Graft.'

I know your creed is pleasure, but the pursuit of pleasure does not, after all, bring happiness.

We breed in an environment of asphalt pavements a body of people whose creeds are chiefly restrictions against other people's way of life, and have kitchens and latrines under the same roof that houses their God.

Men, enslaved by self, passionate, proud, and condemnatory, believe their particular creed or religion to be the Truth, and all other religions to be error; and they proselytize with passionate ardor.

The philosopher, even the Stoic, whose creed was by far the most ennobling in that age, seems to have left the dregs of the people quite out of account; though his philosophy nominally took the whole of mankind into its cognisance, it believed the masses to be degraded and vicious, and made no effort to redeem them.[40]

I had recently gained the acquaintance of the late excellent Dr. Olinthus Gregory, a man of unimpeached orthodoxy; who met me by the frank avowal, that the Nicene Creed was "a great mistake."

The Nicene Creed, drafted by an 'oecumenical' conference of bishops under the auspices of Constantine himself, was the last notable formulation of Ancient Greek philosophy.

The only real creed is a manner of life.

The creed of Western civilization, for which they feel nothing but contempt, and on which they will be broken, is not a simple thing, like theirs.