Unbelief Quotes

• Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.

  David Wilkerson

  Christian, Believe, Godly

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• Our problem in America is not with atheists or the pagans who are consistent with their unbelief, but with believers who are inconsistent with their belief.

  Randall Terry

  Christian, Religious, Atheist

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• God's Word is true whether we believe it or not. Human unbelief cannot alter the character of God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Believe, Character, Humans

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• Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Obedience, Results, Obedience To Authority

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• Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

  Richard Cecil

  Laughing, Leafs, Spears

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• It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

  Saint Augustine

  Eye, Light, Advantage

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 607, 1895.

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• Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

  Ellen G. White

  Faith, Harvest, Seeds

  Ellen G. White (2014). “Signs of the Times Articles - Book II of III”, p.789, Lulu Press, Inc

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• A refusal to believe that God loves us is the unbelief which destroys the soul.

  Edward Norris Kirk

  Believe, Soul, God Love

  Edward Norris Kirk (1857). “Discourses: Doctrinal and Practical”, p.21

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• In all unbelief there are these two things: a good opinion of one's self, and a bad opinion of God.

  Horatius Bonar

  Self, Two, Opinion

  Horatius Bonar (1864). “God's Way of Peace: A Book for the Anxious”, p.38

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• Surely Scripture is right when it makes the sin of sins that unbelief, which is at bottom nothing else than a refusal to take the cup of salvation. Surely no sharper grief can be inflicted upon the Spirit of God than when we leave His gifts neglected and unappropriated.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Grief, Scripture, Cups

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

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• It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Acceptance, Essence, Rejection

  H. P. Blavatsky (2008). “The Origins of Self-Consciousness in The Secret Doctrine”, p.67, Theosophy Trust Books

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• With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Spring, Men, Blind Belief

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 81, 1799.

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• There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.

  George MacDonald

  Strength, Giving, Shining

  George MacDonald (2015). “MALCOLM & THE MARQUIS’S SECRET: Complete Marquise of Lossie Collection (Adventure Classic): The Fisherman's Lady”, p.671, e-artnow

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• The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fear, Doubt, Fearful

  Thomas Carlyle (1831). “Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.114

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• No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

  John Calvin

  Godly, Men, Entering

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.558, Oxford University Press

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• If one's conscience is willing to confess whatever sins have been committed, including the sin of unbelief, it will be sorrowful in a godly way, earnestly desiring the mercy of God.

  Watchman Nee

  Godly, Mercy Of God, Way

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.109, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Causes, Skepticism, Cause And Effect

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.294, Cosimo, Inc.

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• How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.

  Augustus William Hare

  Prayer, Heart, Rooted

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1851). “Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers: First Series”, p.297

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• God is an inexhaustible source of all we need. Our unbelief is discovered in how little we avail ourselves of this infinite fountain

  Paul Washer

  Littles, Needs, Infinite

  Twitter post from Jun 13, 2009

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• We all have in our hearts some areas of unbelief. Let us say to the Lord: I believe! Help my unbelief.

  Pope Francis

  Faith, Christian, Religious

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• There are those who insist that it is a very bad thing to question God. To them, “why?” is a rude question. That depends, I believe, on whether it is an honest search, in faith, for His meaning, or whether it is the challenge of unbelief and rebellion.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Believe, Rude, Challenges

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “On Asking God Why: And Other Reflections on Trusting God in a Twisted World”, p.18, Revell

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• Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

  Richard Cecil

  Evil, Good Evil

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• Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Soul, Belief

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.110

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• Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

  Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

  Evil, Laughing, Leafs

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• All unbelief is the belief of a lie.

  Horatius Bonar

  Lying, Belief

  Horatius Bonar (1851). “Kelso tracts”, p.188

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