Sentence examples for accepted creed from inspiring English sources

Judge Learned Hand, speaking to educators in 1952, deplored an atmosphere "where nonconformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection".

The New England Puritans regarded the Christian life as the basis of the church, accepted creeds as expressions of the faith held by the church, and wished the superior church courts to have only limited and fixed powers.

They accept no creed but the teaching of the New Testament and stress obedience to Jesus Christ and a simple way of life.

By the time he was 17, Popper said, he had realised that: "I had accepted a dangerous creed uncritically, dogmatically… Once I had looked at it critically, the gaps and loopholes and inconsistencies in the Marxist theory became obvious…" Marxism, Popper claims, is analogous to the psychological theories of Adler and pseudo-sciences such as astrology.

Not that all Christians have accepted the classic creeds of their faith.

Its second version has become the most fully ecumenical of Christian creeds, accepted in East and West alike, including the major Protestant bodies.

We hope everyone will recognize that our country becomes more beautiful with each new color and creed we accept as our own.

Anglicans also accept the Nicene Creed and the Apostles' Creed as essential statements of their beliefs.

The creed was accepted at the conference in Baltimore, Md., in 1784, when the Methodist Episcopal Church was formally organized.

Few of his political colleagues went all the way with him and accepted nonviolence as a creed; fewer still shared his food fads, his interest in mudpacks and nature cure, or his prescription of brahmacarya, complete renunciation of the pleasures of the flesh.

BEST: The look on Sylvester Stallone's face as he accepted his award for "Creed".