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  • 'And notice this, Harry: he chose, not the pureblood (which, according to his creed, is the only kind of wizard worth being or knowing) but the half-blood, like himself.†   (source)
  • And then—after the Beatitudes, and the sermon by the stranger— the Nicene Creed felt forced to me.†   (source)
  • Fadey's voice, my brother's words, the creed of the Scarlet Guard, comes back to me.†   (source)
  • The official creed denies them, denies their very existence, yet here they are.†   (source)
  • We have to know by heart all the prayers, the Hail Mary, the Our Father, the Confiteor, the Apostles' Creed, the Act of Contrition, the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary.†   (source)
  • Their creed forbade anything resembling a theater or "vain enjoyment."†   (source)
  • A dog judges others not by their color or creed or class but by who they are inside.†   (source)
  • She argued that she was more connected to God reading her Rousseau than when she was at mass listening to Padre Ignacio intoning the Nicene Creed.†   (source)
  • The effort to separate ourselves whether by race, creed, color, religion, or status is as costly to the separator as to those who would be separated.†   (source)
  • This is called syncretism or the fusion of creeds.†   (source)
  • Also, I loved you in Assassin's Creed.†   (source)
  • That's how I learned the fitness creed of the SEALs.†   (source)
  • I had to recite the Apostles' Creed and tell what each part meant, and I had to explain where we get original sin—†   (source)
  • In a blitz of polar air one night they lost thirty head of cattle and chipped them from the ice a week later like the fallen statues of an ancient creed.†   (source)
  • Nomura-obasan has trouble balancing and Obasan puts her arms around her to steady her and help her to her feet for the reading of the gospel and the recitation of the creed.†   (source)
  • Remember the veterinarian's creed: you have a responsibility to animals, and you have a responsibility to science.†   (source)
  • These are all humanitarian concerns, transcending any one race, gender, or creed.†   (source)
  • All equal, regardless of wealth, color, or creed.†   (source)
  • Other kids, all races and creeds, hunch forward in nearby cubbies, intently pressing down on notes and texts, anxious, for sure, but chipping away at their anxiety with steady exertion, just like he is.†   (source)
  • The only real creed is a manner of life.†   (source)
  • I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."†   (source)
  • Franz's Grand March was now her creed as well.†   (source)
  • But my mates and I, the D-felonies, the E-felonies, the head breakers, the thieves in the night, a mixed group as you'd imagine, with races, creeds, cries in the dark—we used to amble past the windows in the mess and look at the layout' down there with its loopedy-loops and tunnels and puddle lakes, its sward of tinsel grass, and we called it California.†   (source)
  • She had a plain broad face and was the most virtuous woman alive: she laid for everybody, regardless of race, creed, color or place of national origin, donating herself sociably as an act of hospitality, procrastinating not even for the moment it might take to discard the cloth or broom or dust mop she was clutching at the time she was grabbed.†   (source)
  • He was a famous orthodox Christian historian whose text The Prescription Against Heretics was a forerunner of the Nicene Creed.†   (source)
  • "Self-sufficiency is our driving creed," replied the driver.†   (source)
  • What in another time and society might be taken as platitudes about public service were to both John and Abigail Adams a lifelong creed.†   (source)
  • I will not have this creed spread here.†   (source)
  • Mr. Stone had long been suspected of liberal tendencies; he was too friendly, some thought, with his Yankee brethren; he had recently emerged partially damaged from a controversy over the Apostles' Creed; and worst of all, he was thought to be ambitious.†   (source)
  • Twenty thousand torches burned around the lake as Ciphus recited their creeds and reminded them all why they must adhere to the very fabric of the Great Romance without the slightest deviation, as Elyon would surely have it.†   (source)
  • From this ever-changing world arose the Empire of the Scholars, strongest among men, dedicated to their creed: Through knowledge, transcendence.†   (source)
  • Either way, my creed has never changed: Miss Peregrine knows best.†   (source)
  • For me, Christianity was not so much a system of beliefs as it was the powerful creed of a single man: Reverend Matyolo.†   (source)
  • El Norte's article captured the community's feelings: The entire city, no matter what class or creed, will have its thoughts on the same thing: one more victory for los chamacos maravilla (the marvelous boys) as they face Bridgeport in the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.†   (source)
  • Hail Marys, Our Fathers, the Apostles' Creed.†   (source)
  • He was a man who had never accepted the creed that others had the right to stop him.†   (source)
  • It was written by scholars and learned men in dozens of different creeds.†   (source)
  • There was an air about the last few sentences, rather out of keeping with the rest, which caused me to suspect I had encountered some kind of creed once more, I decided to shift the conversation on to a more practical plane by inquiring why we had been taken prisoner.†   (source)
  • Some of the boys dropped out of ranks, went over and knelt in front of Migliaccio, and not necessarily those of his creed, either — Moslems, Christians, Gnostics, Jews, whoever wanted a word with him before a drop, he was there.†   (source)
  • Blasphemy is Sebastian Morgenstern's creed.†   (source)
  • While Puller didn't put much creed in the shrinks, he had deferred to their expertise, but his patience was growing thin.†   (source)
  • Listen, I don't care what you say about my race, creed, or religion, Fatty, but don't tell me I'm not sensitive to beauty.†   (source)
  • Or would you prefer I call you Apollo Creed?†   (source)
  • They saw it as evidence that the perpetrators were inspired by a creed other than radical Islam, though when pressed to name one, they could not.†   (source)
  • Help us make them submit to the will of the cadre, the shapers and molders of our strong creed.†   (source)
  • He had seen it, even in men who had undergone a complete ideological reversal, who in the secret hours of the night had found a new creed, and alone, compelled by the internal power of their convictions, had betrayed their calling, their families, their countries.†   (source)
  • He said that in order to prove that the Negroes have no right to their freedoms, we were subverting the very principles that preserve the spirit of our own ...we are endangering ourselves, no matter what our race and creed.†   (source)
  • He talked for some time with these, discoursing on doctrine and practice, caste and creed, weather and the affairs of the day.†   (source)
  • He told the mourners that the dust had been gathered from the six continents of the world, plus subglacial Antarctica, and represented our need to remember that death is universal, afflicting people of all creeds, colors and nationalities.†   (source)
  • He had lived with his father, had seen the works of love, and therefore knew in his very blood that God was huge and unkillable and good, a pressure of history laying to earth one by one all the barriers the piddling creature had lifted up—the walls between races, colors, creeds, and continents.†   (source)
  • The creeds that had been based upon miracles and revelations had collapsed utterly.†   (source)
  • She took a running start and went through to the other side of the Apostle's Creed and then hung by her chin on the side of the bed, emptyminded.†   (source)
  • He would act according to the creed with which he had challenged the Senate several years earlier: Inconsistencies of opinion arising from changes of circumstances are often justifiable.†   (source)
  • History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.   (source)
  • It is no accident that the Jewish creed begins with the words: "Hear, O Israel!"†   (source)
  • Therefore the first Creed was established, summing up the central Christian "dogmas" or tenets.†   (source)
  • I believe in his egalitarian treatment of everyone despite race, creed, or appearance.†   (source)
  • I CHOOSE FOR MY SUBJECT, faith wrought into life apart from creed or dogma.†   (source)
  • The ideological creed of the ANC is, and always has been, the creed of African Nationalism.†   (source)
  • You are now seeing the climax of the creed of the uncaused and unearned.†   (source)
  • No more wars and no more separations became their common creed.†   (source)
  • That one had to keep "a good heart," come what may, was Abigail's lifelong creed.†   (source)
  • The despoiling of reason has been the motive of every anti-reason creed on earth.†   (source)
  • If they believe that the purpose of my life is to serve them, let them try to enforce their creed.†   (source)
  • And, once and for all, they will learn the meaning of their creed.†   (source)
  • Identify the development of a human consciousness-and you will know the purpose of their creed.†   (source)
  • No, you'd never accept any part of their vicious creed.†   (source)
  • The despoiling of ability has been the purpose of every creed that preached self-sacrifice.†   (source)
  • We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties.†   (source)
  • He had never held that creed, but he had accepted it as natural that his family should hold it.†   (source)
  • The ideological creed of the ANC is, and always has been, the creed of African Nationalism.†   (source)
  • Moreover, Masonry is open to men of all races, colors, and creeds, and provides a spiritual fraternity that does not discriminate in any way.†   (source)
  • They hit you if you don't know why God made the world, if you don't know the patron saint of Limerick, if you can't recite the Apostles' Creed, if you can't add nineteen to forty-seven, if you can't subtract nineteen from forty-seven, if you don't know the chief towns and products of the thirty-two counties of Ireland, if you can't find Bulgaria on the wall map of the world that's blotted with spit, snot, and blobs of ink thrown by angry pupils expelled forever.†   (source)
  • When I would complain about the kneeling, which was new to me—not to mention the abundance of litanies and recited creeds in the Episcopal service—Owen would tell me that I knew nothing.†   (source)
  • The Taliban creed comes right out of the Pashtun handbook: women are the wombs of patrilineage, the fountainheads of tribal honor and continuity.†   (source)
  • Probably more than the creed, hard work kept the morals of the place from spoiling, for the people were forced to fight the land like heroes for every grain of corn, and no man had very much time for fooling around.†   (source)
  • Dad had always believed passionately in Mother's herbs, but that night felt different, like something inside him was shifting, a new creed taking hold.†   (source)
  • I watched him closely that night, and to me it seemed he was trying to live in both worlds, to be a loyal adherent to all creeds.†   (source)
  • Not only did Catholics kneel and mutter litanies and creeds without ceasing, but they ritualized any hope of contact with God to such an extent that Owen felt they'd interfered with his ability to pray—to talk to God DIRECTLY, as Owen put it.†   (source)
  • The Creed It was not only as a missionary that Paul came to have a fundamental significance for Christianity.†   (source)
  • Christianity also has a Semitic background, but the New Testament was written in Greek, and when the Christian theology or creed was formulated, it was influenced by Greek and Latin, and thus also by Hellenistic philosophy.†   (source)
  • It's really structured and you learn things like the Sacraments, the Creed, the Rosary, the Lord's Prayer.†   (source)
  • Superficially, our system is only slightly different; we have democracy unlimited by race, color, creed, birth, wealth, sex, or conviction, and anyone may win sovereign power by a usually short and not too arduous term of service — nothing more than a light workout to our cave-man ancestors.†   (source)
  • They're simply the stories that best supported the creed that the Orthodox Church wanted people to follow.†   (source)
  • He feared that, if he got close to Harambee, the undertow would be irresistible and his oaths about integration, about taking the toughest path, mixing with kids from all races and creeds, would give way to a separatist compromise.†   (source)
  • And the things Irenaeus told people to believe became the foundation for the Nicene Creed, years later.†   (source)
  • A friend once asked me how I could reconcile my creed of African nationalism with a belief in dialectical materialism.†   (source)
  • I'm not of his creed, but I know that goodness and charity and loving kindness shine in his daily actions.†   (source)
  • His fundamental creed, he had reduced to a single sentence: "He who loves the Workman and his work, and does what he can to preserve and improve it, shall be accepted of Him.†   (source)
  • We shared a common creed.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, the Orthodox Christians were delineating the steps to being card-carrying members of the group—confess the creed, accept baptism, worship, obey the priests.†   (source)
  • In answer to concerns about his political creed, he expressed total attachment to and veneration for the present system of a free republican government.†   (source)
  • His speech on the inauguration augers well to our country...He declares himself the friend of France and of peace, the admirer of republicanism, the enemy of party, and he vows his determination to let no political creed interfere in his appointments.†   (source)
  • In her letters to Mary Cranch, Abigail was more inclined to share the details of her life and her innermost feelings, while with sister Elizabeth—and perhaps because the Reverend Shaw, too, would be reading what she wrote—she was often moved to evoke the creed they had been raised on in the Weymouth parsonage.†   (source)
  • I rebelled against their creed of human impotence and I took pride in my ability to think, to act, to work for the satisfaction of my desires.†   (source)
  • The mystics of both schools, who preach the creed of sacrifice, are germs that attack you through a single sore: your fear of relying on your mind.†   (source)
  • We, who were the living buffers between you and the nature of your creed, are no longer there to save you from the effects of your chosen beliefs.†   (source)
  • The nation which had once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor," said Francisco d'Anconia in a press interview.†   (source)
  • How many corpses do you intend to pile up before you renounce it-your guns, your power, your controls and the whole of your miserable altruistic creed?†   (source)
  • That creed has lasted for centuries solely by the sanction of the victims-by means of the victims' acceptance of punishment for breaking a code impossible to practice.†   (source)
  • There is no honest revolt against reason-and when you accept any part of their creed, your motive is to get away with something your reason would not permit you to attempt.†   (source)
  • I, who thought that I was fighting them, I had accepted the worst of our enemies' creed-and that is what I've paid for ever since, as I am paying now and as I must.†   (source)
  • It is your mind that they want you to surrender-all those who preach the creed of sacrifice, whatever their tags or their motives, whether they demand it for the sake of your soul or of your body, whether they promise you another life in heaven or a full stomach on this earth.†   (source)
  • Those irrational wishes that draw you to their creed, those emotions you worship as an idol, on whose altar you sacrifice the earth, that dark, incoherent passion within you, which you take as the voice of God or of your glands, is nothing more than the corpse of your mind.†   (source)
  • There, he thought, was the final abortion of the creed of collective interdependence, the creed of non-identity, nonproperty, non-fact: the belief that the moral stature of one is at the mercy of the action of another.†   (source)
  • No matter what dishonorable compromise you've made with your impracticable creed, no matter what miserable balance, half-cynicism, half-superstition, you now manage to maintain, you still preserve the root, the lethal tenet: the belief that the moral and the practical are opposites.†   (source)
  • The creed of sacrifice is a morality for the immoral-a morality that declares its own bankruptcy by confessing that it can't impart to men any personal stake in virtues or values, and that their souls are sewers of depravity, which they must be taught to sacrifice.†   (source)
  • But whether this had been Boyle's motive or whether it had been the principle of sacrifice, no one could tell and it made no difference: if Boyle had been a saint of the creed of selflessness, he would have had to do precisely what he had done.†   (source)
  • There was no reason to feel more revulsion than usual, she thought; he had merely uttered the things which were preached, heard and accepted everywhere; but this creed was usually expounded in the third person, and Jim had had the open effrontery to expound it in the first.†   (source)
  • No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are forced to protect your self-esteem by fighting for the creed of self-destruction.†   (source)
  • She could not smash it with her fists, she could not batter one by one all the posts of the street stretching off beyond eyesight-as she could not smash that creed from the souls of the men she would encounter, one by one.†   (source)
  • We, the men of the mind, were the unnamed victims of their creed, we who were willing to break their moral code and to bear damnation for the sin of reason-we who thought and acted, while they wished and prayed-we who were moral outcasts, we who were bootleggers of life when life was held to be a crime-while they basked in moral glory for the virtue of surpassing material greed and of distributing in selfless charity the material goods produced by-blank-out.†   (source)
  • Now she knew that they were not exceptions, that theirs was the code accepted by the world, that it was a creed of living, known by all, but kept unnamed, leering at her from people's eyes in that sly, guilty look she had never been able to understand-and at the root of the creed, hidden by silence, lying in wait for her in the cellars of the city and in the cellars of their souls, there was a thing with which one could not live.†   (source)
  • He saw her looking at him, her glance half-question, half-hope, and he added, "When the creed of self-immolation has run, for once, its undisguised course-when men find no victims ready to obstruct the path of justice and to deflect the fall of retribution on themselveswhen the preachers of self-sacrifice discover that those who are willing to practice it, have nothing to sacrifice, and those who have, are not willing any longer-when me†   (source)
  • desires the best in all things, in values of matter and spirit, a soul that seeks above all else to achieve its own moral perfection, valuing nothing higher than itself-and that the proof of an achieved self-esteem is your soul's shudder of contempt and rebellion against the role of a sacrificial animal, against the vile impertinence of any creed that proposes to immolate the irreplaceable value which is your consciousness and the incomparable glory which is your existence to the blind evasions and the stagnant decay of others.†   (source)
  • Destruction is the only end that the mystics' creed has ever achieved, as it is the only end that you see them achieving today, and if the ravages wrought by their acts have not made them question their doctrines, if they profess to be moved by love, yet are not deterred by piles of human corpses, it is because the truth about their souls is worse than the obscene excuse you have allowed them, the excuse that the end justifies the means and that the horrors they practice are means to nobler ends.†   (source)
  • No, she thought, they're not evil, not all people ....they're only their own first victims, but they all believe in Jim's creed, and I can't deal with them, once I know it ....and if I spoke to them, they would try to grant me their good will, but I'd know what it is that they hold as the good and I would see death staring out of their eyes.†   (source)
  • Such is the secret core of your creed, the other half of your double standard: it is immoral to live by your own effort, but moral to live by the effort of others-it is immoral to consume your own product, but moral to consume the products of others-it is immoral to earn, but moral to mooch-it is the parasites who are the moral justification for the existence of the producers, but the existence of the parasites is an end in itself-it is evil to profit by achievement, but good to profit by sacrifice-it is evil to create your own happiness, but good to enjoy it at the price of the blood of others.†   (source)
  • They were the men whose dealings with Cuffy Meigs were regarded by people as that unknowable of mystic creeds which smites the observer for the sin of looking, so people kept their eyes closed, dreading, not ignorance, but knowledge.†   (source)
  • This was the creed by which Senator Taft lived, and he sought in his own fashion and in his own way to provide an atmosphere in America in which others could do likewise.†   (source)
  • Since my father was a conservative of a particularly fevered strain, it was natural for me to study carefully every creed or doctrine to which he was irrationally and diametrically opposed.†   (source)
  • You are aware of this, and now that you have sown the seeds of this stolen creed, you are planning to move on to another phase of opposition.†   (source)
  • His field had not hardened him; it had made him narrow and paranoid, and his classroom was a forum for the astonishing bleakness of his creeds.†   (source)
  • But your biggest mistake, I feel, is that you picked a pacifistic creed with which to oppose an active one.†   (source)
  • It does not come into the Christian creed.†   (source)
  • But I am done with this creed of corruption.†   (source)
  • So said all the medical gintlemen, widout respect of person nor creed.†   (source)
  • The Declaration of Independence was not only the primary article of Lincoln's creed; it provided his most formidable political ammunition.†   (source)
  • But his creed, the attitude, that is to say, adopted by him in his public relations, made him hide the need he had for praise; thus to Fred Maitland and to Herbert Fisher he appeared entirely self deprecating, modest, and ridiculously humble in his opinion of himself.†   (source)
  • He experimented with several different creeds, attended services, donated large sums and switched to another faith.†   (source)
  • Creeds like pacifism and anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind.†   (source)
  • When you were drunk or when you committed either fornication or adultery you recognized your own personal fallibility of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line.†   (source)
  • These fantasies were no longer a reflection of my reaction to the white people, they were a part of my living, of my emotional life; they were a culture, a creed, a religion.†   (source)
  • We want to capture—in stone, as others capture in music—not some narrow creed, but the essence of all religion.†   (source)
  • For if you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics-a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage-surely that proves that you are in the right?†   (source)
  • This column is not the supporter of any particular creed, but simple decency demands that we respect the religious convictions of our fellow men.†   (source)
  • It was not to be the temple of any particular creed, but an interdenominational, non-sectarian monument to religion, a cathedral of faith, open to all.†   (source)
  • No man so fair as a gun-fighter in the Western creed of an "even break"!†   (source)
  • At this time he was beginning to question the orthodox creed.†   (source)
  • He had neither companions nor friends, church nor creed.†   (source)
  • I am not of your creed, but I do believe in those who make their fellow-creatures happy.†   (source)
  • Good people, be they ever so diverse in creed, do not threaten each other.†   (source)
  • I no longer break cucumber frames and burn gorse bushes: I shatter creeds and demolish idols.†   (source)
  • They intermarry, and that's a death-blow to our creed.†   (source)
  • Why creeds and prayers and mackintoshes?†   (source)
  • You have thrown aside a creed, but you have preserved the ethic which was based upon it.†   (source)
  • And every fool knows, except you, that the Nicene is the most historic creed!†   (source)
  • As far as he could see, religion existed to uphold the founders of a Church, a creed.†   (source)
  • You are our hero; the whole city is behind you, irrespective of creed.†   (source)
  • And her creed gave her boldness far beyond the limit to which vanity would have led her.†   (source)
  • The song of the future must transcend creed.†   (source)
  • "Love your enemies as yourself!" was a divine word, entirely free from any church or creed.†   (source)
  • For to speak on meant to be false to that creed.†   (source)
  • Lassiter, the men of my creed are unnaturally cruel.†   (source)
  • In that low, passionate utterance Shefford read the death-blow to the old Mormon polygamous creed.†   (source)
  • How she might be breaking faith with creed or duty!†   (source)
  • What point in the anti-slavery creed would you have me argue?†   (source)
  • We knew our catechism, and that was enough; we learned our creed and our duty.†   (source)
  • That's what's at the root of me, Alyosha; that's my creed.†   (source)
  • I have perhaps offended you in your creed; but it was without wishing to do so, I swear.†   (source)
  • As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.†   (source)
  • The creed, as I should state it now, was this.†   (source)
  • We worship the living Deity according to dead men's forms and creeds.†   (source)
  • Sonia felt that his gloomy creed had become his faith and code.†   (source)
  • And when the time comes they will show it to the tottering creeds of the world.†   (source)
  • This matter of creeds is like horseflesh.†   (source)
  • Let the creed and commandments even have the saucy homage of parody.†   (source)
  • Such, at least, was his creed, some few hours since.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Fisher's unconventionality was, after all, a merely superficial divergence from an inherited social creed, while the manners of the Gormer circle represented their first attempt to formulate such a creed for themselves.†   (source)
  • Like the large majority of those who profess and daily repeat the dogmas and creeds of the world, she had come into her practices and imagined attitude so insensibly from her earliest childhood on, that up to this time, and even later, she did not know the meaning of it all.†   (source)
  • Them feet-folks from York and Leeds that be always eatin' cured herrin's and drinkin' tea an' lookin' out to buy cheap jet would creed aught.†   (source)
  • 'In this simple form of assent to his will lies the whole gist of the situation; their creed, his truth; and the testimony to that faithfulness which made him in his own eyes the equal of the impeccable men who never fall out of the ranks.†   (source)
  • A thoroughly shallow creed.†   (source)
  • SWANN IN LOVE To admit you to the 'little nucleus,' the 'little group,' the 'little clan' at the Verdurins', one condition sufficed, but that one was indispensable; you must give tacit adherence to a Creed one of whose articles was that the young pianist, whom Mme. Verdurin had taken under her patronage that year, and of whom she said "Really, it oughtn't to be allowed, to play Wagner as well as that!" left both Plante and Rubinstein 'sitting'; while Dr. Cottard was a more brilliant diagnostician than Potain.†   (source)
  • So far as he knew, Whisner was the first man of that creed he had ever met, and he could scarcely hide his eagerness.†   (source)
  • He loomed up now in different guise, not as a jealous suitor, but embodying the mysterious despotism she had known from childhood—the power of her creed.†   (source)
  • "The gospel of the tooth-brush," as General Armstrong used to call it, is part of our creed at Tuskegee.†   (source)
  • Some people might have cried "Alas, poor Theology!" at the hideous defacement—the last grotesque phase of a creed which had served mankind well in its time.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, they are still in Hades, I believe, according to your creed, and cannot help you much in your present trouble.†   (source)
  • Remember, the proceeds go to a great and free charity, and one whose broad begevolence stretches out its helping hand, warm with the blood of a loving heart, to all that suffer, regardless of race, creed, condition or color—the only charity yet established in the earth which has no politico-religious stopcock on its compassion, but says Here flows the stream, let ALL come and drink!†   (source)
  • But he never fell into the error of arresting his intellectual development by any formal acceptance of creed or system, or of mistaking, for a house in which to live, an inn that is but suitable for the sojourn of a night, or for a few hours of a night in which there are no stars and the moon is in travail.†   (source)
  • Throughout the district, he was thought of as someone special, and not just by those of his own creed, as someone who knew more than others—about religious matters in part, but also about other things that made him seem a little uncanny, or at the least, out of the ordinary.†   (source)
  • He returned to the creed of soldiers.†   (source)
  • The temple of another creed, Hindu, Christian, or Greek, would have bored him and failed to awaken his sense of beauty.†   (source)
  • Canst say the Creed in Latin, man?†   (source)
  • Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.... Amory, sorry for them, was still not sorry fo†   (source)
  • Love like Ruth's, love which can rise above conflicting creeds and deep-seated racial prejudices, is hard to find in all the world.†   (source)
  • Take the attacks on the established fundamentals of the Christian creed which were so popular with the 'scientists' a generation ago.†   (source)
  • And on the other hand, Grace Marr, as well as Newton's wife, Mary, were of that type that here as elsewhere find the bulk of their social satisfaction in such small matters as relate to the organization of a small home, the establishing of its import and integrity in a petty and highly conventional neighborhood and the contemplation of life and conduct through the lens furnished by a purely sectarian creed.†   (source)
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