Unbelief Quotes

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

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Obedience, Results, Obedience To Authority

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

  Euripides

  Toil, Ifs

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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