Empires rise and fall, old civilizations disappear, old creeds become incredible, and often, for a time, the course of humanity seems to be retrograde.
Thus far the Athanasian Creed might be a chapter of the Todtenbuch, and it is very evident where the Alexandrian saint got those subtle metaphysical ideas, which are so opposed to the rigid monotheistic creeds of Judaism and Mahometanism.
Upon these pinchbeck creedstheir souls must surely starve, must slowly shrink to desiccated imps.
The sense of decorous creeds outraged by his mother's behavior of long ago vanished in the relief that present youth gave with its laughing company and fashionable frocks.
Because the individual who views life positively must give up unvaryingcreeds and dogmas “anterior, exterior, and superior” to himself, it has been assumed that he must also give up standards.
What prevails in the region of the natural law is endless change and relativity; therefore the naturalistic positivist attacks all the traditional creeds and dogmas for the very reason that they aspire to fixity.
The ecumenical creeds are accepted by both Churches, and therefore prove nothing as regards their relative age.
Name the particular creeds or confessions of the Lutheran Church?
Particular Creeds or Confessions, which are accepted by the various Churches and Denominations as their distinctive confessions.
The impression these numerous creeds make on me is like that of members of the same family disputing with one another.
Old creeds and institutions will have to give an account of themselves, and nothing that cannot stand the test will live.
He encouraged or left unmolested the creeds and practices of the uncounted sects or tribes who were gathered under the eagles.
The creeds and laws conformed to then were not formed and adopted for that occasion, but had prior existence, and were here applied with strenuous vigor by firm hearts and clear heads.
Backed and aided probably by strong and learned men, he became to Christendom's witchcraft, as Martin Luther had been to its Roman creeds and practices, a bold, outspoken protestant.
Portions of his creeds helped him to frankness in description of marvels.
It was a moment in the history of the human mind when East and West were blending their traditions to form the husk of Christian creeds and the fantastic visions of neo-Platonism.
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Creeds and rituals have not cleansed their hands of 134:1 rabbinical lore.
Jesus acted boldly, against the accredited evidence of the senses, against Pharisaical creedsand practices, and he 18:12 refuted all opponents with his healing power.
Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms.
There is not so much as a hint at papal authority found in the three old creeds known as the Apostles’, the Nicene and the Athanasian, nor in any ancient gloss upon them.
It is not necessary to trace the oriental creeds of magic further than they affected modern beliefs; but in the divinities and genii of Persia are more immediately traced the spiritual existences of Jewish and Christian belief.
We have no peculiar doctrines or systems; the old creeds are enough for us.
Protestants, who look at creeds as things to be changed like coats, whenever they seem not to fit them, little know what we Catholic-hearted ones suffer.
But what if an artist ought to be of all creeds at once?
We recognise the usages of the elder creeds in the chosen sites of their temples-- the habitual ceremonies of their worship.
It is this obvious truth which destroys all the erudite systems that would refer the different creeds of the heathen to some single origin.
Their very plagiarism from the philosophy of other creeds was fortunate, inasmuch as it presented nothing hostile to the national superstition.
We see men of all kinds of professed creeds attain to almost all degrees of worth or worthlessness under each or any of them.
I cannot call this Shakspeare a "Sceptic," as some do; his indifference to the creeds and theological quarrels of his time misleading them.
Creeds cannot be permanent and universal, unless the language of which they consist is also permanent and universal; which no language has ever been.
Yet in his youth, Apollos was as orthodox, as undoubtedly correct in his religious opinions before the introduction of Christianity, as any Christian who now subscribes all the creeds of the Catholic Church.
Creeds are intended to be permanent and universal professions of faith; and are the instrument by which a uniformity of faith is to be secured, if such a thing be yet possible.
If he be intelligent, it will occur to him as surprising that no creed, if creeds be good things, was given by our Saviour to his Apostles before he left them, weak and divided in the faith as they at that time were.
The permanence of this most ancient of creeds is in name only; and the name itself is a false assumption.
But creeds never have fulfilled, and never can fulfil, any one of these purposes.
Unlike most education, this is almost purely personal; it is not to be had from books, or lectures or creeds or doctrines.
Then, as I already said, creeds are human versions of Divine truths; and we do not ask a man to accept all the creeds, any more than we ask him to accept all the Christians.
Upheaval was the order of the day, kings became exiles and exiles kings, dynasties and creeds were being subverted, and empires seemed rocking as on the surface of an earthquake.
Yet this doctrine has been widely taught, and is still embodied in many of the creeds of Christendom.
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