Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.

I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.

There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.

It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.