...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...dead friend:— He fought his doubts, and gathered strength, He would not make his reason blind, He faced the spectres of the mind, And laid them; thus, he came at length To find a firmer faith his own: And Power was with him in the night. Which makes the darkness and the light,...

...first, But' 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...

...first, But ever strove to make it true. Porplext 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. f A thoughtful writer has said, that while there is a temper of mind inventive of doubts,...

...strongly 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...

...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...

...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,...