 | Daniel Moore - 1865 - 218 pages
...disloyalty upon those who, in simplicity and godly sincerity,, challenge her to bring forth her proofs. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds1. But this thorough acquaintance with the Christian evidences is needed for the sake of others... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 734 pages
...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, 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 Uud... | |
 | 1866 - 526 pages
...reminds us of Tennyson's : — " 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. " He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid... | |
 | 1866 - 588 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | 1866 - 768 pages
...beat his music out; " He fought his doubts nnd pnthered strength; He would not inuko lii- |udgnient blind; He faced the spectres of the mind, And laid them : thus he came at length '* To find ft hnppier fnith his own ; And Power was with him in the night, Which mnkes the darkness ami the light,... | |
 | 1866 - 690 pages
...intellectual and spiritual ferment been subsiding. He had — " fought his doubts and gathered strength ; lie would not make his judgment blind ; He faced the spectres of the mind, And laid them." The light was breaking more rapidly than he had hoped, and when he entered on his real life-service... | |
 | 1866 - 612 pages
...part of No. xcv. p. 143 :— ' 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. And dwells not in the light alone, 'He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his... | |
 | 1866 - 652 pages
...little danger in the extent to which our literature extols doubt in these times. Our poet has sung — There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. And we keep ringing changes on this thought, till doubt appears to many a nobler thing than calm strong... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 258 pages
...lamented Arthur Hallam : — " Perplext In faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me,...strength, He would not make his judgment blind; He faced Ihe spectres of the mind And laid them : thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own ;... | |
 | Dora Greenwell - 1867 - 216 pages
...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... | |
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There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. 
