 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 404 pages
...and no Christ but some idealized human genius. There is an important sense in which it is true that " There lives more faith in honest doubt Believe me, than in half the creeds." To call this literature and these writers a-Christian, wn-Christian, or anti-Christian, is not intolerant.... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 406 pages
...and no Christ but some idealized human genius. There is an important sense in which it is true that " There lives more faith in honest doubt Believe me, than in half the creeds." To call this literature and these writers a-Christian, wn-Christian, or an<t-Christian, is not intolerant.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1872 - 330 pages
...subtle question versed, Who touch 'da jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it true : Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music...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... | |
 | Philip Walton (fict.name.) - 1872 - 268 pages
...go so far as you do, still I am ready to listen to reason, and I agree with the poet who says — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." ' Throw off the yoke at once,' observed Kunz ; ' be a freethinker, enjoy this glorious world, and believe... | |
 | Christina Catherine Liddell - 1872 - 312 pages
...many inventions to bring it down and to degrade it. No wonder we come to think with the poet — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds ; " creeds believed in too often only because they are not thought about at all. A man's worst enemies... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1872 - 360 pages
...But ever strove to make it true: Perplcxt in faith, but pnre in deeds, At last he beat his music ont. There lives more faith in honest doubt. Believe me, than In half the creed.«. Пе fought hie doubts and gather'd strength, lie would not make his judgment blind, He faced... | |
 | 1873 - 826 pages
...with rare force and discrimination into his friend's difficulties when he says of him : " Perplext iu faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music...There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than iu half the creeds. " He fought his doubts and gathered strength, He would not make his judgment... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1873 - 876 pages
...continue to do so to the end oi MV existence. THE CREEDS OF LONDON. I r has been eaid by the poet, There lives more Faith in honest Doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds ; :>.':d the remark has given no little offence to those u ho plume themselves upon their orthodoxy... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1873 - 348 pages
...implicitly believe. Tennyson is thought to have said a very strong thing when he penned the lines : " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half your creeds." Of course there does. In honest doubt there lives more faith than in all the oreeds.... | |
 | William Rathbone Greg - 1874 - 286 pages
...even if the light made its way through a rent in the wall of the Temple." — COLERIDGE. " Perplex'd in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music...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... | |
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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. 
