 | New Church gen. confer - 1862 - 606 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1861 - 1148 pagina’s
...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 - 808 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1893 - 482 pagina’s
...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.... | |
 | John Kitto - 1866 - 524 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1876 - 706 pagina’s
...seems to me that one is somewhat helped to the understanding of Tennyson's celebrated paradox — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds," — by the following passage from Theodore Parker, quoted in the Athenceum notice of him, September... | |
 | 430 pagina’s
...STERLING. IN TWO PARTS— PART II. 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. TENNYSON'S "In Mcmorlam" JOHN Sterling, for causes which Archdeacon Hare does not clearly state, but... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 228 pagina’s
...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 judgement blind, He faced the spectres... | |
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There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. 
