 | New Church gen. confer - 1862 - 606 psl.
...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 psl.
...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... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 psl.
...listen at the gates, And hear the household jar within. [From In Memoriam.] FAITH IX DOUBT. PEKPI.EXT in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music...than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and gathered strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1868 - 648 psl.
...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 psl.
...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 psl.
...the aid of obedience, reverence, and wisdom. The ideal friend ' " touched a jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it true. Perplext in faith,...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... | |
 | 1853 - 672 psl.
...subtle question versed, Who touched a jarring lyre at first, But ever strove to make it true. Porplext in faith, but pure in deeds, .At last he beat his...honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. f A thoughtful writer has said, that while there is a temper of mind inventive of doubts, the cleverness... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1893 - 482 psl.
...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.... | |
 | 430 psl.
...become the watchwords and guiding principles of all nations. JOHN STERLING. IN TWO PARTS— PART II. Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat...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... | |
 | 1876 - 706 psl.
...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... | |
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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. 
