Experience is a dumb, dead thing;
The victory's in believing. [ Lowell ]
Strong Son of God, immortal Love,
Whom we that have not seen Thy face,
By faith, and faith alone, embrace,
Believing where we cannot prove. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
Now God be praised, that to believing souls,
Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair! [ William Shakespeare ]
Words are but wind, but seeing is believing. [ Proverb ]
Let love prevail!
The love that envies not, that thinks no ill,
That faileth not, but ever lives.
All things believing, hoping, bearing still. [ Horatius Bonar ]
Seeing is believing, but feeling is the truth. [ Proverb ]
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear.
Your birthday as my own to me is dear.
Blest and distinguish'd days! which we should prize
The first, the kindest bounty of the skies.
But yours gives most; for mine did only lend,
Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend. [ Martial ]
Seeing is believing (he who sees with the eye believes with the heart). [ Italian Proverb ]
Belief and love, - a believing love, will relieve us of a vast load of care. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem. [ Halleck ]
Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
Begin by regarding every thing from a moral point of view, and you will end by believing in God. [ Dr. Arnold ]
Scandal is what one-half the world takes pleasure in inventing, and the other half in believing. [ Chatfield ]
A world all sincere, a believing world; the like has been; the like will again be - cannot help being. [ Carlyle ]
He that, by often arguing against his own sense, imposes falsehoods on others, is not far from believing them himself. [ Locke ]
A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when he sees a camel. [ George Eliot ]
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another. [ Carlyle ]
Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain, - proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate. [ Leigh Hunt ]
It doth not yet appear what we shall be. We lie here in our nest, unfledged and weak, guessing dimly at our future, and scarce believing what even now appears. But the power is in us, and that power is finally to be revealed. And what a revelation will that be! [ Horace Bushnell ]