1. A church with a little creed is a church with a little life. The more divine doctrines a church can agree on, the greater its power, and the wider its usefulness. The fewer its articles of faith, the fewer its bonds of union and compactness.

2. The modern cry, “less creed and more liberty,” is a degeneration from the vertebrate to the jellyfish, and means less unity and less morality, and it means more heresy. Definitive truth does not create heresy—it only exposes and corrects.

3. Shut off the creed and the Christian world would fill up with heresy unsuspected and uncorrected, but none the less deadly. ~ B. H. Carroll