September 9
Daily Cheer for All the YearNeither be ye of doubtful mind.—LUKE xii, 29.
For whatsoever is not of faith is sin.—ROM. xiv, 23.
Doubt, a blank twilight of the heart which mars, All sweetest colors in its dimness same;
A soul-mist, through whose rifts familiar stars Beholding we misname.
JEAN INGELOW.
Beware of doubt. Faith is the subtle chain That binds us to the Infinite.
MRS. E. OAKES SMITH.
Doubt is hell in the human soul.
COUNTESS DE GASPARIN.
Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight.
LORD BACON.
When there is a great deal of smoke and no clear flame, it argues much moisture in the matter, yet it witnesseth certainly that there is a fire there; and therefore dubious questioning is a much better evi- dence than that senseless deadness which most take for believing. Men that know nothing in sciences have no doubts. He never truly believed who was not made first sensible and convinced of unbelief.
LEIGHTON (Coleridge, Aids).
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
PETRARCH.
Charitable and candid thoughts of men are the necessary introduction to all good-will and kindness: they form, if we may speak so, the only climate in which love can grow up and flourish. A suspicious temper checks in the bud every kind affection.
JOHN BLAIR.