The shadow cloaked from head to foot,
Who keeps the keys of all the creeds.[ Tennyson ]
Narrow creeds of right and wrong, which fade
Before the unmeasured thirst for good.[ Robert Browning ]
Men and women existed before creeds; love is the only religion.[ Mrs. Campbell Praed ]
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.[ Alfred Tennyson ]
Science corrects the old creeds ... and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses.[ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.[ Emerson ]
No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following openly-declared purposes, and preaching candidly-beloved and trusted creeds.[ John Ruskin ]