Unbelief Quotes - Page 2

• Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

  Sigmund Freud

  Statistics, Belief

  SIGMUND FREUD “THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION”

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• Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.

  William Cowper

  Blind, God Works In Mysterious Ways, Vain

  'Olney Hymns' (1779) 'Light Shining out of Darkness'

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• At the conscious approach of death, faith in the Biblical Religion, with its God and Christ and written Revelation, never weakens, but almost or quite always strengthens, and very often advances to a splendid assurance; while unbelief under the same circumstances never strengthens, but almost or quite always weakens and falters, and very often fails utterly.

  Enoch Fitch Burr

  Biblical, Failing, Christ

  Enoch Fitch Burr (1871). “Ad Fidem; Or, Parish Evidences of the Bible”, p.277

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• Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

  E. M. Forster

  Helping, Belief, Lord

  1951 Two Cheers for Democracy,'What I Believe'.

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• I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.

  A. N. Wilson

  Wise, Men, Years

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• Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.

  Andre Gide

  Atheism, Doe, Influence

  "Journals". Translated by Justin O'Brien, January 13, 1929.

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• There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Infidelity, Honor, Inability

  Thomas Carlyle (1884). “Miscellaneous essays”

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• Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Vicious, Grows

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.319

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• To lose ones faith-surpass The loss of an Estate- Because Estates can be Replenished- faith cannot-.

  Emily Dickinson

  Loss, Estates, Loses

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.640, Delphi Classics

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• If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.

  Euripides

  Toil, Ifs

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• Belief cannot argue with unbelief, it can only preach to it.

  Karl Barth

  Belief, Arguing

  "A weapon for liberation, and oppression" by Tim Skellett, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2011.

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• All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black.

  Robert Browning

  Life, White, Black

  'Bishop Blougram's Apology' (1855) l. 209

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• I know of no condition worse than that of the man who has little or no light on the supreme religious questions, and who at the same time is making no effort to come to the light.

  Enoch Fitch Burr

  Religious, Men, Light

  Enoch Fitch Burr (1871). “Ad Fidem; Or, Parish Evidences of the Bible”, p.53

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• Sometimes God calls a person to unbelief in order that faith may take new forms.

  Christian Wiman

  Order, May, Sometimes

  Christian Wiman (2013). “My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer”, p.51, Macmillan

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• Unbelief is criminal because it is a moral act, an act of the whole nature.-Belief or unbelief is a test of a man's whole spiritual condition, because it is the whole being, affections, will, conscience, as well as the understanding, which are concerned in it.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Spiritual, Men, Understanding

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to believe in something requires some measure of understanding and effort, not to believe doesn't require much of anything at all.

  Frederick Buechner

  Atheist, Believe, Choices

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jan 29, 2016

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• Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

  Frederick Buechner

  God, Faith, Religious

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• Let us watch against unbelief, pride, and self-confidence. If we go forth in our own strength, we shall faint, and utterly fall; but, waiting on the Lord, out of weakness we shall be made strong. Having our hearts and our hopes in heaven, we shall be carried above all difficulties, and be enabled to press forward and lay hold of the prize of our high calling in Christ Jesus.

  Matthew Henry

  Jesus, Fall, Heart

  "A commentary upon the holy Bible: Isaiah to Malachi".

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• Unbelief was the first sin, and pride was the first-born of it.

  Stephen Charnock

  Pride, Firsts, Sin

  Stephen Charnock, Edward Parsons (1815). “The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir”, p.340

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• Unbelief is like gravity, it's always pulling down on the authority of Scripture.

  Mark Dever

  Scripture, Authority, Gravity

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• It will require more than a few hours of fasting and prayer to cast out such demons as selfishness, worldliness, and unbelief. Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and of conduct.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Prayer, Heart, Selfishness

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 507), 1895.

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• The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Faith, Lying, Empty

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• It's not easy to change world views. Faith has its own momentum and belief is comfortable. To restructure reality is traumatic and scary. That is why many intelligent people continue to believe: unbelief is an unknown.

  Dan Barker

  Faith, Believe, Intelligent

  Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

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• As soon as we ask what faith is and what sort of mistreatment of faith causes doubt, we are led to the first major misconception about doubt-the idea that doubt is always wrong because it is the opposite of faith and the same thing as unbelief. What this error leads to is a view of faith that is unrealistic and a view of doubt that is unfair.

  Os Guinness

  Errors, Views, Opposites

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• Use your health while you have it, my dear friend and brother. Do not cast away peculiar opportunities that may never come again. You know not when your last Sabbath with your people may come. Speak for eternity. Above all things, cultivate your own spirit. A word spoken by you when your conscience is clear, and your heart full of God's Spirit, is worth ten thousand words spoken in unbelief and sin.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Brother, Heart, Opportunity

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1866). “The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.86

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