tenderminded

Updated: May 1, 2025

Altogether, this humiliating affair showed me what a trap for the conscience these subscriptions are: how comfortably they are passed while the intellect is torpid or immature, or where the conscience is callous, but how they undermine truthfulness in the active thinker, and torture the sensitiveness of the tenderminded.

Francis William Newman - Phases of Faith: Passages from the History of My Creed