 | Dora Greenwell - 1867 - Страниц: 216
...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... | |
 | 1868 - Страниц: 1078
...itself to our poet's words : — Perplext in faith, but pare in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in 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... | |
 | Edward Campbell Tainsh - 1868 - Страниц: 262
...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 - Страниц: 514
...closely and too intensely on the sun of truth. And so our poet laureate is right when he sings : — " There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." But objections may be the mere finical, querulous magnified complaints of a dissatisfied mind ; and,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - Страниц: 828
...do, So little done, such things to be. Ibid. Ixxii. Thy leaf has perished in the green. Ibid. Ixxiv. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. Ibid. xcv. ^ >'. • • ' j \< . •« v >'ff V**£ , C^ VwAc^J^w .. '' C^"'*«~' V.. 'V •'-•••'... | |
 | 1868 - Страниц: 598
...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... | |
 | 1869 - Страниц: 974
...ever itrove to make it true : " Perpleit in faith, out pure in deed*, 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, tic would not make his judgment blind; He faced 'the spectres... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1869 - Страниц: 498
...ever strove to make it true : Perplex'd 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. CHAPTER XXVI. POETS OF THE PRESENT CENTURY. LORD BYRON. R. DISRAELI, in a speech made some time since... | |
 | 1869 - Страниц: 642
...(see canto 84). He says : — 1 Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last ho beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. lie fought his doubts, and çathcr'd strength, Пе would not make his judgment blind, By which I understand... | |
 | 1880 - Страниц: 996
...have a natural sympathy with doubters. We appreciate the force of Tennyson's most suggestive couplet : "There lives more faith in honest doubt. Believe me, than in half the creeds — " but the doubt must be honest. We have great respect for a doubt that makes a man better, but... | |
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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. 
