Unbelief Quotes - Page 5

• Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its faith not in the living God, but in dying men.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Dying

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.40, Fig

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• Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart.

  Ann Voskamp

  Father, Heart, Ears

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.175, Zondervan

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• It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

  Eric Hoffer

  Belief, Realizing, Believer

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• It is true that infidelity cannot withstand the force of reason and argument; but true godly example can come nearer the lifespot of religion. It knocks at the door of the heart. If the truths of Christianity were seconded by the devoted and pious lives of all her professed disciples, the unbelief of the world would soon cease. Private example of godliness is what the world most needs.

  Ichabod Spencer

  Heart, Godly, Doors

  Ichabod Smith Spencer (1851). “A Pastor's Sketches”, p.62

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• Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.

  Alice Walker

  Hurt, Causes, Terrible

  Alice Walker (1982). “El color púrpura”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• A rebellion against God, even as believers, is fueled by the toxic fumes of unbelief.

  James MacDonald

  Toxic, Rebellion, Believer

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• In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief

  Walter Lippmann

  Blood, Belief, Intolerance

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.182, Harvard University Press

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• Hebrews 3:19 tells us why the children of Israel did not enter into the promised land. Their problem was the same thing that keeps children of God today from enjoying the full benefits of their salvation: UNBELIEF I point this out not to condemn; rather, my desire is to see the children of God fully possess all of their benefits in Christ.

  Brian Williams

  Children, Israel, Land

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• So let's set the record straight. Faith is not the opposite of reason. The opposite of faith is unbelief. And reason is not the opposite of faith. The opposite of reason is irrationality. Do some Christians have irrational faith? Sure. Do some skeptics have unreasonable unbelief? You bet. It works both ways.

  Greg Koukl

  Christian, Opposites, Records

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• God gives you the sight, the right, and the might to do great things, but you have to develop the fight!

  Tim Storey

  Jobs, Fighting, Simple

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have noticed that whenever a person gives up his belief in the Word of God because it requires that he should believe a good deal, his unbelief requires him to believe a great deal more. If there be any difficulties in the faith of Christ, they are not one-tenth as great as the absurdities in any system of unbelief which seeks to take its place.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Giving Up, Believe, Belief

  "The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 39: Sermons 2289-2341".

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• In Gilead, the narrator's friend's son describes himself not as an atheist but in "state of categorical unbelief." He says, "I don't even believe God doesn't exist, if you see what I mean." I pointed this passage out to Mom and said it closely matched my own views-I just didn't think about religion.

  Will Schwalbe

  Mom, Atheist, Believe

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.85, Vintage

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• Only look to Jesus. He died for you, died in your place, died under the frowns of heaven, that we might die under its smile. Regard neither unbelief nor doubt. Fear neither sin nor hell. Choose neither life nor death. All these are swallowed up in the immensity of Christ and are triumphed over in His cross.

  John Fletcher

  Jesus, Heaven, Doubt

  John Fletcher (1849). “Letters”, p.229

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• Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all... My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul. My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is 'Lord, I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

  E. M. Forster

  Atheist, Believe, Mind

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• That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back and attempt to revise and rewrite history in their own image.

  D. James Kennedy

  Education, Atheism, Historian

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• Unbelief is the mother of vice; it is the parent of sin; and, therefore, I say it is a pestilent evil-a master sin.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mother, Evil, Parent

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1858). “Gems from Spurgeon; or, Extracts from the note-book of a non-professional reporter”, p.75

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• Among the poor, the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate, and which is as far removed from the dead palsy of unbelief as it is from the delirious raptures of fanaticism. Theirs is a true, unhesitating faith, and they are willing to lay down the burden of e weary life, in the sure and certain hope of a blessed immortality.

  Robert Southey

  Death, Blessed, Quiet

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• Allah made the faith for you as a purity from polytheism (and unbelief).

  Fatima bint Muhammad

  Purity, Polytheism, Made

  "Ayan al-Shī'ah" by al-Sayyid Muhsin al-Amin, vol.1, p. 316,

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• While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Difficulty

  "Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century, Book Two: Over the Treaty Wall". Book by A.J. Broomhall (p. 62), 1982.

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• Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its trust, not in the living God but in dying men. The unbeliever denies the selfsufficiency of God and usurps attributes that are not his. This dual sin dishonors God and ultimately destroys the soul of man.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Soul, Dying

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.40, Fig

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• Each of those churches shows certain books, which they call revelation, or the Word of God. The Jews say that their Word of God was given by God to Moses face to face; the Christians say, that their Word of God came by divine inspiration; and the Turks say, that their Word of God (the Koran) was brought by an angel from heaven. Each of those churches accuses the other of unbelief; and, for my own part, I disbelieve them all.

  Thomas Paine

  Christian, Book, Inspiration

  Thomas Paine (1861). “The Age of Reason, etc”, p.2

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• Anti-clericalism and non-belief, have their bigots just as orthodoxy does.

  Julien Green

  Orthodoxy, Doe, Belief

  "Journal" by Julien Green, July 23, 1945.

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• There are many different kinds of doubt. When we doubt the future, we call it worry. When doubt other people we call is suspicion. When we doubt ourselves we call it inferiority. When we doubt God we call it unbelief. When we doubt what we hear on television we call it intelligence! When we doubt everything we call it cynicism or skepticism.

  Rick Warren

  People, Worry, Doubt

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• Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.

  R. C. Sproul

  Jesus, Errors, Intellectual

  R. C. Sproul (1991). “Following Christ”, Tyndale House Pub

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• Before I can call upon Christ as my Savior, I have to understand that I need a savior. I have to understand that I am a sinner. I have to have some understanding of what sin is.I have to understand that God exists. I have to understand that I am estranged from that God, and that I am exposed to that God's judgment. I don't reach out for a savior unless I am first convinced that I need a savior. All of that is pre-evangelism. It is involved in the data or the information that a person has to process with his mind before he can either respond to it in faith or reject it in unbelief.

  R. C. Sproul

  Data, Understanding, Mind

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