| New Church gen. confer - 1862 - 606 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...listen at the gates, And hear the household jar within. [From In Memoriam.] FAITH IX DOUBT. PEKPI.EXT in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music...honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and gathered strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1868 - 648 pages
...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 numbers... | |
| Criticism - 1861 - 1148 pages
...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... | |
| American literature - 1871 - 808 pages
...reason and knowledge without the aid of obedience, reverence, and wisdom. The ideal friend " touched a jarring lyre at first, But' ever strove to make it...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... | |
| American periodicals - 1871 - 878 pages
...reason and knowledge without the aid of obedience, reverence, and wisdom. The ideal friend ' " touched a jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it...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... | |
| American periodicals - 1853 - 672 pages
...subtle question versed, Who touched a jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it true. Porplext in faith, but pure in deeds, .At last he beat his...honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. f A thoughtful writer has said, that while there is a temper of mind inventive of doubts, the cleverness... | |
| John Kitto - Bible - 1866 - 524 pages
...believe, and acting as if they did." Then follows a passage which strongly reminds us of Tennyson's :— " Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat...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... | |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1893 - 482 pages
...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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