Unbelief Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• I would say to my soul, O my soul, this is not the place of despair; this is not the time to despair in. As long as mine eyes can find a promise in the Bible, as long as there is a moment left me of breath or life in this world, so long will I wait or look for mercy, so long will I fight against unbelief and despair.

  John Bunyan

  Eye, Fighting, Long

  John Bunyan (1850). “The works of John Bunyan: With an introduction to each treatise, notes, and a sketch of his life, times, and contemporaries”, p.92

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• Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace;
  Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
  His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. 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

  Sweet, Judging, Grace

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

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• Don't allow false modesty,doubts or unbelief prevent you from accepting God's favor. The door of mercy stands wide open.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• One man in a meeting, filled with unbelief, can make a place for the devil to have a seat.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Men, Devil, Filled

  Smith Wigglesworth (2016). “Smith Wigglesworth on Manifesting the Power of God: Walking in God's Anointing Every Day of the Year”, p.61, Destiny Image Publishers

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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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• Whether you realize it or not, your ongoing battle with unbelief drives all your sinful thoughts, emotions, desires, and actions.

  James MacDonald

  Desire, Battle, Ongoing

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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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• The saints are sinners still. Our best tears need to be wept over, the strongest faith is mixed with unbelief, our most flaming love is cold compared with what Jesus deserves, and our intensest zeal still lacks the full fervor which the bleeding wounds and pierced heart of the crucified might claim at our hands. Our best things need a sin offering, or they would condemn us.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Heart, Love Is

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm capitalizing like a German, but it doesn't matter whether it's faith in a person or in God, or belief in science or whatever, it's the desperate in-between state that makes for interesting dramatic tension.

  Richard Dooling

  Character, Men, Land

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• It is the Jews who originated biblical exegesis (a critical analysis of the Bible), just as they were the first to criticize the forms and doctrines of Christianity...Truly has Darmesteter written: 'The Jew was the apostle of unbelief, and every revolt of mind originated with him.'

  Bernard Lazare

  Biblical, Critical Analysis, Mind

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• Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.

  Abu Hanifa

  Faith, Would Be, Doe

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• I can't believe in the God of my Fathers. If there is one Mind which understands all things, it will comprehend me in my unbelief. I don't know whose hand hung Hesperus in the sky, and fixed the Dog Star, and scattered the shining dust of Heaven, and fired the sun, and froze the darkness between the lonely worlds that spin in space.

  Gerald Kersh

  Lonely, Dog, Stars

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• Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Years, Soul, Despair

  Wassily Kandinsky (1970). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular”

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• I can see now how deeply God's absence affected my unconscious life, how under me always there was this long fall that pride and fear and self-love at once protected me from and subjected me to.... For if grace woke me to God's presence in the world and in my heart, it also woke me to his absence. I never truly felt the pain of unbelief until I began to believe.

  Christian Wiman

  Pain, Fall, Believe

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• Grieve not the Christ of God, who redeems us; and remember that we grieve Him most when we will not let Him pour His love upon us, but turn a sullen, unresponsive unbelief towards His pleading grace, as some glacier shuts out the sunshine from the mountain-side with its thick-ribbed ice.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Sunshine, Grieving, Ice

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 82), 1895.

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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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• When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.

  Jules de Goncourt

  Rational, Incredulity

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• I am as sure as I am of the fact of Christ's reign, that a comprehensive and centralised system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, social and political, which this sin-rent world has ever seen.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

  Christian, Education, Political

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• The opposite of patience is not impatience, but unbelief.

  Jackie Pullinger

  Opposites, Impatience

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• What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Roots, Giving, Facts

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• I do not believe in the creed professed by any church that I know of. Each of these churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my part, I disbelieve them all.

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Church, Creeds

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• The courts demand that every religious person must accommodate a single atheist who might be 'offended' at the favorable mention of God's name. But no atheist can be forced to accommodate a single religious person who might be offended by the atheist's unbelief, or who wants to be part of the pluralism and diversity about which liberals regularly speak, but which is not broad enough to embrace people who believe in God.

  Cal Thomas

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

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• Baptism is not to be conferred on a man who is unwilling to give up his other sins, so neither should Baptism be given to one who is unwilling to renounce his unbelief. Nevertheless, each of them receives the Sacrament if it is conferred on him, although not unto salvation.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Giving Up, Men, Baptism

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• How much unbelief exists in the minds of the Latter-day Saints in regard to one particular doctrine which I revealed to them, and which God revealed to me - namely that Adam is our Father and God-.

  Brigham Young

  Father, Mind, Saint

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