 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Church history - 1837 - 590 pages
...thine; but I desire to understand a little of thy truth, which my heart believes and loves : not that I seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe that I may understand ; for I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand J." St. Gregory, in his Morals,... | |
 | Christianity - 1855 - 534 pages
...but 1 long to understand in some degree thy truth, which my heart believes and loves. For I do not seek to understand, that I may believe ; but I believe, that I may understand." ' — Thomson's Bamptun Lectures, p. 161. distinguished scholar who has republished his contributions... | |
 | Christianity - 1847 - 566 pages
...but I desire in some measure to understand Thy truth, which my heart loves and believes. For I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe that I may understand.'1 Now here we have the principle of Pascal's philosophy. He neither denies the use of reason,... | |
 | 1847 - 576 pages
...but I desire in some measure to understand Thy truth, which my heart loves and believes. For I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe that I mayunderstand.' ' Now here we have the principle of Pascal's philosophy. He neither denies the use... | |
 | John James Tayler - Duty - 1851 - 372 pages
...distinction between man and brute. There was a deep truth in the words of a great schoolman : ' I do not seek to understand, that I may believe ; but I believe, that I may understand.'* Belief is the root of understanding. But this primitive feeling — this intuitive belief — is only... | |
 | John James Tayler - Duty - 1851 - 374 pages
...powers and finest qualities of the heart. Many are the beautiful and instructive works that have been to understand, that I may believe ; but I believe, that I may understand.'* Belief is the root of understanding. But this primitive feeling — this intuitive belief — is only... | |
 | William Thomson (abp. of York.) - 1853 - 328 pages
...but I long to understand in some degree thy truth, which my heart believes and loves. For I do not seek to understand, that I may believe ; but I believe, that I may understand " (85). And this noble aspiration was no mere phrase of rhetoric. In the two ideas which he has contributed... | |
 | Saint Anselm (Archbishop of Canterbury) - Meditations - 1856 - 314 pages
...I long, in some degree, to understand Thy Truth, which my heart believes and loves ; for I seek not to understand, that I may believe ; but I believe, that I may understand. For, for this very reason do I believe, because, unless I believe, I shall not understand. Truly, O LORD,... | |
 | Adam Storey Farrar - Religion and science - 1860 - 254 pages
...but I long to understand in some degree Thy truth, which my heart believes and loves. For I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe that I may understand."* England has the honor of possessing his remains, and amid the long series of monuments which mark the... | |
 | Frederick William Briggs - Bible - 1861 - 334 pages
...might know. Happy he who, in the spirit of these words, can say, with the venerable Anselm, "I do not seek to understand, that I may believe ; but I believe, that I may understand ;" — who submits to the authority of God in humble confidence that what is at first believed, because... | |
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I do not seek to understand, in order that I may believe; but I believe, that I may understand. 
