Quotes About Assent

You feel me' - that's straight from me. You can put a stamp on that.

And then you'll do what I say? "Yes." "Take us where I'll tell you to?" "Yes." "No hidden overrides?" "None that I know of.

We think so because other people all think so; or because after all, we do think so; or because we were told so, and think we must think so; or because we once thought so, and think we still think so; or because, having thought so, we think we will think so.

Do ya think he'll agree to it?

Did she consent? But words failed her. This willful assent they were suddenly asking her to express was the agreement to surrender herself, to say yes in advance to everything to which she most assuredly wanted to say yes but to which her body said no...

I know," said Papa. "It's all right with me, but

By nature, every individual has the right to govern himself; and governments, whether founded on majorities or minorities, must derive their right from the assent, expressed or implied, of the governed,, and be subject to such limitations as they may impose.

Biblical faith is not intellectual assent to a proposition. It is risking that God is worthy of trust.

The audience agreed, Amen.

I approve, as I'm sire the rest of the female population does.

God does not "compel" a person to faith in the sense of forcing him to believe what he consciously refuses to accept, but God "compels" a change in the person's will by regeneration so that his assent to the gospel is indeed voluntary.

Faith in the gospel in no way comes from the person himself – the understanding is sovereignly granted by God as he removes the blindness from the mind and enlightens it, and the willful assent is produced in him by God's power, as a gift that he gives only to those whom he has chosen.

Without God's work of regeneration in which he changes the disposition and volition of man, no one can or will truly assent to the biblical propositions about God and Christ.

strengthen her frail body. "All right, Mama," she assented joyfully.

Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

If we proportion our assent in all things to the degrees of evidence, we do the utmost that human nature is capable of, in a rational way, to secure itself from error.

That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to action.

Faith is an assent of the mind and a consent of the heart consisting mainly of belief and trust.

Faith is a theological virtue that inclines the mind under the influence of the will and grace to yield firm assent to revealed truths because of the authority of God.

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?

We need not impose poverty, but it must not frighten us, as it is the most favorable condition for spiritual development we can find, if accepted with assent. If we want to experiment in giving freedom to the child, the field of poverty is the best.

Frank nodded at him.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.