"I am a fairly orthodox Christian. Every Sunday,……" — Francis Spufford

More Assent Quotes

This quote is filed under Assent Quotes, one of 57 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out… — Alfred North Whitehead
• There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent. — William Hazlitt
• There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent. — Pindar
• I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives... But this does not satisfy the priesthood. They… — Thomas Jefferson
• As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community... this… — Thomas Kuhn
• And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person,… — David Hume
• The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference. — Ray Krone
• Oh, hear Him within you speaking this infinite love,moving like some divine and audible leaven,lifting the sky of the soul… — Jessica Powers
• It is to be the assent and ratification of the several States, derived from the supreme authority in each State,… — James Madison
• So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely… — Charles Hodge
• Every event has a cause-that is ... for every event e1 there exists an event e2 (or a class of… — Ermanno Bencivenga
• Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel. — William Gurnall

See all 57 Assent Quotes »