Quotes about Assent

Only if God IS ultimate reality, can he be our unconditional concern; only then can he be the object of surrender, obedience, and assent. Faith in anything which has only preliminary reality is idolatrous.

For first cometh to the mind the simple suggestion, then the strong imagination, afterwards pleasure, evil affection, assent. And so little by little the enemy entereth in altogether, because he was not resisted at the beginning. And the longer a man delayeth his resistance, the weaker he groweth, and the stronger groweth the enemy against him.

Belief requires assent not only of the mind but also of the will.

Faith in the widest sense of the word, is assent to the truth, or the persuasion of the mind that a thing is true.

Almightiness consists much less in that which human beings imagine it to be, namely, changing things in accordance with one's own will—Jesus proved, through his miracles, that he could do that, too—than in exerting an influence on the freedom of human hearts without overpowering them. Enticing forth from them, through the mysterious power of grace, their free assent to the truly good.

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

You must be able to say, with reasonable certainty, I understand, before you can say any one of the following things: I agree, or I disagree, or I suspend Judgment.

If actions speak louder than words, it is because they lend the weight of behavior (real assent) to belief (nominal assent).

Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.

By trying to please everybody, he had pleased nobody, and lost his Ass besides.

You must believe the promises and not merely assent to them. They will be as a meadow of flowers to you and you as a lazy bee to them if you do not really believe in them and apply them. Just as the industry of the bee extracts the honey, so the industry of your faith extracts comfort from God's promises.

So in the field of assent you cannot be hindered or obstructed. 'Evidently.