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It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.
— Blaise Pascal
Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
— John Locke
Some proofs command assent. Others woo and charm the intellect. They evoke delight and an overpowering desire to say, 'Amen, Amen'.
— John William Strutt
Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.
— Ursula Goodenough
Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.
— Nigel Dennis
Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
— Walter Kaufmann
Giving mental assent to people or systems that pretend to control you allows them to do just that.
— Zachary Slayback
That faith which is required of us is then perfect when it produces in us a fiduciary assent to whatever the Gospel has revealed.
— William Wake
In the end faith always moves beyond mental assent and duty and will involve the whole self - mind, will, and emotions. Why
— Timothy J. Keller
Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.
— William Gurnall
There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
— William Hazlitt
To be free to achieve our most cherished goals we need authorities we can trust, assent to, and make our own.
— R. R. Reno
The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.
— Abraham Lincoln
give a mental assent to the customs of their forefathers,
— Swami Vivekananda
How easy it is to read the Scriptures and give a kind of nominal assent to the truth and yet never to appropriate what it tells us!
— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
To read with diligence; not to rest satisfied with a light and superficial knowledge, nor quickly to assent to things commonly spoken of:
— Marcus Aurelius
But it is difficult for men to disbelieve a woman who insists that she wishes to serve them, and he nodded assent.
— Catherynne M Valente
That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
— Aldous Huxley
Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Faith must become more than a verbal proclamation or an intellectual assent. True faith must be acted out.
— Millard Fuller
Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?
— Marcus Aurelius
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Assent was indignant & universal
— David Mitchell
Assent was indignant & universal
— David Mitchell
Faith is more than getting a theological quiz right. Faith is to know, to assent, to put your trust in, and to cherish what is true.
— Kevin DeYoung
Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
— Miguel De Unamuno
You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Alexey Alexandrovitch bowed his head in assent.
— Leo Tolstoy