 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 them : thus he came at length To find a stronger...  The Canadian Monthly and National Review - Pàgina 38editat per - 1876Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 258 pàgines
...with God's blessing, achieve the same victory. So Tennyson sings of the lamented Arthur Hallam : — " Perplext In faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat...than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and gathered strength, He would not make his judgment blind; He faced Ihe spectres of the mind And laid... | |
 | 1875 - 652 pàgines
...layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous" (Prov. ii. 1-7.) We are all familiar with Tennyson's lines : " Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat...music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, J Selieve me, than in half the creeds. " He fought his doubts and gathered strength, He would not make... | |
 | William Guest - 1867 - 152 pàgines
...bent upon inquiry, and was open to conviction. He therefore speaks, in this same passage, of one — " He fought his doubts, and gather'd strength ; He would not make his judgment blind ; He faced the spectres of his mind, And laid them : thus he came at length " To find a stronger faith his... | |
 | Dora Greenwell - 1867 - 216 pàgines
...opposition to belief; love of truth is exalted above truth itself, as in the often quoted lines : — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." Yet when Christ utters that great promise, " Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pàgines
...hate will yield to tears ; But doubt destroys the fairest thingCreates the spot it fears. Eliza Cook. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the Creeds. Tennyson, In Mem. xcv. DOVEB CLOTS. How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 520 pàgines
...: one indeed I knew In many a subtle question versed, Who touch'da jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it true : Perplext in faith, but pure...strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them : thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his... | |
 | 1868 - 1078 pàgines
...that God has set his seal in the Bible itself to our poet's words : — Perplext in faith, but pare in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives...honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds ! " JFS THE CHRISTIAN'S REST. T>IBLE readers are so much in the habit of dwelling on -"-^ passages... | |
 | 1868 - 588 pàgines
...was r.-¿ standing, till now it stands on the firm shore of faith, and utters its shout of triumph. ' He fought his doubts, and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them: thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own.'... | |
 | Edward Campbell Tainsh - 1868 - 262 pàgines
...nature of superstition ; • the second is of the very spirit of irreverence, which is irreligion. " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." (xcv.) That is deeply true ; but for the doubt to be honest, it must be true of the doubter that "... | |
 | 1868 - 598 pàgines
...entertained concerning it are honest. Surely the very air is, by this time, weary of hearing that — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." I have an " honest doubt " of that, and therefore I wont believe you ; and there lives more faith in... | |
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