Unbelief Quotes - Page 7

• Indeed, the opposite of joy is not sorrow. The opposite of joy is unbelief.

  Leslie Weatherhead

  Inspirational, Opposites, Joy

  "Time for God".

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• Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to believe in something requires some measure of understanding and effort, not to believe doesn't require much of anything at all.

  Frederick Buechner

  Atheist, Believe, Choices

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jan 29, 2016

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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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• 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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• Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

  Frederick Buechner

  God, Faith, Religious

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• 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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• We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divine love, studded with gems of sacrifice and adoration, or a thorny crown, filled with the cruel briars of unbelief, or selfishness, and sin.

  Aimee Semple McPherson

  Jesus, Selfish, Sacrifice

  Aimee Semple McPherson (2009). “This is That: Personal Experiences Sermons and Writings of Aimee Semple McPherson”, p.573, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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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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• Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.

  Edith Hamilton

  Age, Said, Mark

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• It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.

  Ben Stein

  Birthday, Smart, Men

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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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• Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, if it has its own way it will go out to the utmost sin in that kind. Every unclean thought or glance would be adultery if it could, every thought of unbelief would be atheism if allowed to develop. Every rise of lust, if it has its way reaches the height of villainy; it is like the grave that is never satisfied. The deceitfulness of sin is seen in that it is modest in its first proposals but when it prevails it hardens men’s hearts, and brings them to ruin.

  John Owen

  Heart, Men, Lust

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• It gave me no pleasure to see people drink in my opinions if they seemed ignorant of Jesus Christ and the value of being saved by Him. Sound conviction for sin, especially the sin of unbelief, and a heart set on fire to be saved by Christ, with a strong yearning for a truly sanctified soul-this was what delighted me; those were the souls I considered blessed.

  John Bunyan

  Strong, Jesus, Blessed

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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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• 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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• Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."

  Tryon Edwards

  Ignorance, Greek, Inquiry

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1423, Ravenio Books

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• Unbelief is criminal because it is a moral act, an act of the whole nature.-Belief or unbelief is a test of a man's whole spiritual condition, because it is the whole being, affections, will, conscience, as well as the understanding, which are concerned in it.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Spiritual, Men, Understanding

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

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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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• No man can have anything better after faith than a woman of righteous character, loving and child-bearing. And no man can have anything worse after unbelief than a sharp-tongued woman of bad character.

  Umar

  Children, Character, Men

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• Tell me, you vain professor, when did you shed a tear for the deadness, hardness, unbelief, or earthliness of your heart? Do you think that such an easy religion can save you? If so, we may invert Christ's words and say, 'Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to life, and may there be that go in there.'

  John Flavel

  Heart, Thinking, Tears

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• God has set before you an open door which no man has a right or power to shut. If you should be shut out, it will be by your own unbelief, and not for want of a warrant to come. Enter, then, without delay or hesitation. None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.

  Archibald Alexander

  Opportunity, Men, Doors

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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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• We walk into the future in God-glorifying confidence, not because the future is known to us but because it is known to God. And that's all we need to know. Worry about the future is not simply a character tic, it is the sin of unbelief, an indication that our hearts are not resting in the promises of God.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Heart, Character, Worry

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