...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...

...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...

...voyage of discovery overlapped with Newman's, the experience of other lands and peoples was crucial. There lives more faith in honest doubt. Believe me, than in half the creeds. —Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam AH H.5 5 It is not hard to see that the correspondent of the...

...Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt. John Henry Newman, Apologia pro Vita si<a(1864) 1 1 There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam, (1850) 12 All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt...

...who hold that belief is nothing if not sincere. We are glad to find him quoting those noble lines: 40 There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. The difficulties of a sincere Christian in our complex modern society often troubled him. Not, of course,...

...continues to grow after his death. His life and death illustrate Tennyson's assertion in In Memoriam that "There lives more faith in honest doubt / Believe me, than in half the creeds" (elegy 96). Most of the German allusions are found in the middle part of the novel, which portrays...

...been variously commended, from Shakespeare ("Modest doubt is cal'd the Beacon of the wise"), Tennyson ("There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds"), and Holmes ("To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man"), to popular...

...experience allowed, albeit tentatively,6 and doubt celebrated at least as much as faith. (Tennyson: "There lives more faith in honest doubt/ Believe me, than in half the creeds" [section 96], Wieseltier: "It is not only faith that humbles, Doubt humbles, too,,,, doubt is the candor...

...these questions, and it is hypocritical to pretend that such queries are blasphemous. Tennyson wrote: There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. Attitudes toward deities vary from total reverence at one extreme to the kind of quid-proquo relationship...

...in a place where angels descend and make their gentle marks in the snow. The Condition of My Faith There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A JEWISH RABBI FRIEND surprised me twenty-five years ago, after...