 | New Church gen. confer - 1862 - 606 pagine
...maintaining that "the Suppression of Doubt is not Faith," and that according to our modern poet — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. " The author of this pamphlet was supposed to be Professor Goldwin Smith. The Bishop preached a sermon... | |
 | 1864 - 998 pagine
...absolute impartiality ! English scepticism in our time is mostly of that sort of which it may be said — There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. It is honest, serious, and arises in most cases from the sincere interest taken in the subject. Along... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1868 - 648 pagine
...the vast problems of human nature cannot be dismissed with a stereotyped " I believe." He sings — There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds ; and so there does, the simple fact being that there is no ground whatever for faith in a creed. With... | |
 | 1876 - 516 pagine
...The religion that set forth Christ had ; and if I were speaking of another than myself I might say, "He fought his doubts and gathered strength, He would...faced the spectres of the mind And laid them : thus he gathered strength To find a stronger faith his own, And power was given him in the night, Which makes... | |
 | 1861 - 1148 pagine
...but where the sciolist is apt to be confident, we may Bay for our friend in comparison with him, " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." When there is so much willfulness in men's opinions, and so much dogmatism in the world, it may be... | |
 | 1871 - 878 pagine
...But ever strove to make it true. Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out: There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me,...than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his j udgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid... | |
 | 1871 - 808 pagine
...ever strove to make it true. Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out: . There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me,...than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid... | |
 | 1897 - 986 pagine
...time troubled and perplexed him. But it may be truly said of him as he said of his dead friend:— He fought his doubts, and gathered strength, He would not make his reason blind, He faced the spectres of the mind, And laid them; thus, he came at length To find a firmer... | |
 | John Kitto - 1866 - 524 pagine
...reminds us of Tennyson's :— " Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out, There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me,...than in half the creeds. " He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1893 - 482 pagine
...patriotic; again it is of love or of nature. It is always pure, generally hopeful and believing. " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds," writes Tennyson; and his sympathies are chiefly reserved for those doubts which are full of faith.... | |
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There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. 
