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Words on faith and agreement

These assent quotes explore the relationship between faith and evidence, noting that true Belief is intense confidence not always based on proof that satisfies every reasonable person.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Drive
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Nov 07, 2020

We must assent to the will of Heaven above and conform to the wishes of men on earth below, but the government should assert the majesty of its warlike might in order to drive away the hordes of fierce and cruel men. We know that the dispositions of these outer barbarians are as ravenous as those of wolves.

Quotes by Zhang Zhidong

Gospel
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Nov 07, 2020

Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.

Quotes by William Gurnall

Faith
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Nov 07, 2020

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.

Quotes by William Ames

Confident
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Nov 07, 2020

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

Quotes by Walter Kaufmann

Anything
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Nov 07, 2020

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I Am
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Nov 07, 2020

I am a fairly orthodox Christian. Every Sunday, I say and do my best to mean the whole of the Creed, which is a series of propositions. But it is still a mistake to suppose that it is assent to the propositions that makes you a believer. It is the feelings that are primary.

Quotes by Francis Spufford

Nov 07, 2020

Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.

Quotes by Asa Gray

Others discuss theological assent to gospel truths, or how figures like Abraham gave assent to what was revealed, themes connected to what people Assert as true.

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