Unbelief Quotes - Page 6

• Profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason, and it is the superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief.

  Humphry Davy

  Thinking, Profound, Mind

  Sir Humphry Davy, J. D., John DAVY (M.D., F.R.S.) (1851). “Salmonia: or, Days of fly fishing ... By an Angler i.e. Sir Humphry Davy . Third edition. With plates”, p.168

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• Think against your feelings; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking.

  J. I. Packer

  Emotional, Thinking, Feelings

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• All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Age, Belief

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.

  Graham Greene

  Believe, Trouble, Don't Believe

  "Graham Greene: An Intimate Portrait by His Closest Friend and Confidant". Book by Leopoldo Durán, p. 97, 1994.

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• The ultimate cause of spiritual depression is unbelief. For if it were not for unbelief, even the devil could do nothing. It is because we listen to the devil instead of listening to God that we go down before him and fall before his attacks.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Spiritual, Fall, Listening

  D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2016). “Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures”, p.14, Zondervan

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• We have received too much from God to allow ourselves opportunities for unbelief. We have received too many gifts and privileges to allow a grumbling, murmuring heart to disqualify us of our destiny. In contrast, the thankful heart sees the best part of every situation. It sees problems and weaknesses as opportunities, struggles as refining tools, and sinners as saints in progress.

  Francis Frangipane

  Struggle, Heart, Opportunity

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• I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Guarantees, Indicators, Implied

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• If the thought ever comes to you that everything that you have thought about God is mistaken and that there is no God, do not be dismayed. It happens to many people. But do not think that the source of your unbelief is that there is no God.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Faith, Thinking, People

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• Father, O father! what do we here
  In this land of unbelief and fear?

  William Blake

  Fear, Father, Land

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.90, Routledge

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• Let no one out of laziness or continuous worldly occupations miss these holy Sunday gatherings, which God Himself handed down to us, lest he be justly abandoned by God... If you are detained and do not attend on one occasion, make up for it the next time, bringing yourself to Christ's Church. Otherwise you may remain uncured, suffering from unbelief in your soul because of deeds or words, and failing to approach Christ's surgery to receive... holy healing.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Healing, Sunday

  Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

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• Unbelief will destroy the best of us; faith will save the worst of us.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Worst

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1883). “The Present Truth: A Collection of Sermons Preached at the Metropolitan Tabernacle”

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• Words that are not spoken are much more powerful than words that are spoken in unbelief.

  Charles Capps

  Powerful

  Charles Capps (1981). “Changing the Seen and Shaping the Unseen”, Harrison House Incorporated

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• The Holy Spirit cannot conquer the world with unbelief, nor can He save the world with a worldly Church. He calls for a crusade, a campaign, and an adventure of saving passion. For this enterprise He wants a separated, sanctified and sacrificial people.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Passion, Adventure, Conquer The World

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  There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Impossible, Limitation, Impossibility

  Smith Wigglesworth (2006). “Smith Wigglesworth on Prayer”, p.78, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Unbelief puts our circumstance between us and God, but faith puts God between us and our circumstances.

  F.B. Meyer

  Circumstances

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• The one thing that hinders God is our unbelief.

  F.B. Meyer

  Hinder, One Thing

  F.B. Meyer (2002). “Abraham: The Obedience of Faith”, p.58, CLC Publications

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• Many will be affected with some gross sins of theirs against the law, who never see the venom of their unbelief of the gospel. But this is the sin that draws deepest; and therefore that is the sin which the Spirit is in a special manner to convince of.

  Thomas Boston

  Law, Special, Spirit

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• There is no worse sin than unbelief toward the gospel.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Sin

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• For forty years did unbelief, murmuring, and rebellion shut out ancient Israel from the land of Canaan. The same sins have delayed the entrance of modern Israel into the heavenly Canaan. In neither case were the promises of God at fault. It is the unbelief, the worldliness, unconsecration, and strife among the Lord's professed people that have kept us in this world of sin and sorrow so many years

  Ellen G. White

  Israel, Years, Land

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• I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.

  Jean Paul

  Fog, Air, Infidelity

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• Unbelievers enjoy the security of their unbelief; there is great confidence in ignorance.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Ignorance, Enjoy, Great Confidence

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• The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.

  John Muir

  Heart, Ignorance, Light

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.828, Library of America

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• It is true that some have greater power of resistance than others, but everyone has the power to close his heart against doubt, against darkness, against unbelief, against anger, against hatred, against jealousy, against malice, against envy. God has given this power unto all of us, and we can gain still greater power by calling upon Him for that which we lack. If it were not so, how could we be condemned for giving way to wrong influences?

  George Q. Cannon

  Heart, Giving, Envy

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• Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments. Unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Religious, Men, Aberration

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). “Democracy in America”, p.282, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Prove, Dies

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