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. The Meaning of Faith - Seite 35von Harry Emerson Fosdick - 1917 - 318 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| New Church gen. confer - 1862 - 606 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...had ; and if I were speaking of another than myself I might say, "He fought his doubts and gathered strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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,...doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his j udgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them; thus he came at length To find a... | |
| 1897 - 986 Seiten
...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 faith his own: And Power was with him in the night. Which makes the darkness and the light,... | |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1893 - 482 Seiten
...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.... | |
| 1876 - 706 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
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