Unbelievers Quotes

• O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.

  George Whitefield

  Believe, Son, Faithful

  George Whitefield (2013). “Sermons of George Whitefield”, p.18, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the worst in reckless defiance; the plurality, in plodding hesitation, doing, as well as they can, what practical work lies ready to their hands.

  John Ruskin

  Birthday, Powerful, Lying

  "Selections From the Works of John Ruskin".

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• I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?

  Alan Alda

  Atheist, Book, Simple

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• In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being unsure.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, Uncertain, Skepticism

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• The reason the world is not seeing Jesus is that Christian people are not filled with Jesus. They are satisfied with attending meetings weekly, reading the Bible occasionally, and praying sometimes. It is an awful thing for me to see people who profess to be Christians lifeless, powerless, and in a place where their lives are so parallel to unbelievers’ lives that it is difficult to tell which place they are in, whether in the flesh or in the Spirit.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Christian, Jesus, Reading

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• [Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain.

  Blaise Pascal

  Reading, Book, Men

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• If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.

  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  May, Belief, Nostalgia

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Probably no one of us has the True Religion. But all of us together - if we are allowed to be free - are discovering ways of conversing about the great mysteries. The pretense to know all the answers to the deepest mysteries is, of course, the grossest fraud. And any people who declare a Jihad, a holy war on unbelievers - those who do not share their believers' pretended omniscience - are enemies of thinking men and woman and of civilization. I see religion as only a way of asking unanswerable questions, of sharing the joy of a community of quest, and solacing one another in our ignorance.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  War, Ignorance, Men

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• Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while others can excuse themselves with a shrug of the shoulders for not being capable of it. It is a decisive insight of faith itself that all of us are incapable of faith in ourselves, whether we think of its preparation, beginning, continuation, or completion.

  Karl Barth

  Art, Atheist, Thinking

  "A Karl Barth Reader".

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• For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, Heaven, Life Is

  Randy Alcorn (2012). “Eternal Perspectives: A Collection of Quotations on Heaven, the New Earth, and Life after Death”, p.84, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.

  Rumi

  Love, Spiritual, Embrace

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• The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.

  John Calvin

  Men, Light, Way

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• Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod; but the former, like children of noble birth, profit by repentance and correction.

  John Calvin

  Children, Differences, Noble

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.57, Baker Books

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• Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.

  Francis Chan

  Christian Inspirational, Religion, Christianity

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.81, David C Cook

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• The ground we have in common with unbelievers is not the Bible, but our common needs, hurts, and interests as human beings. You cannot start with a text expecting the unchurched to be fascinated by it. You must first capture their attention, and then move them to the truth of God's Word. By starting with a topic that interests the unchurched and then showing what the Bible says about it, you can grab their attention, disarm prejudices, and create an interest in the Bible that wasn't there before.

  Rick Warren

  Hurt, Moving, Topics

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• Christianity began with 120 in the Upper Room, within three centuries it had become the predominant religion of the Roman Empire. What brought this about? The answer is deceptively simple, while Christianity was being presented to unbelievers in both Word and deed, it was the deed that far exceeded the Word in evangelistic effectiveness.

  C. Wagner

  Simple, Effectiveness, Three

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• For my own part, I believe that in dealing with skeptics, and unbelievers, and enemies of the Bible, Christians are too apt to stand only on the defensive. They are too often content with answering this or that little objection, or discussing this or that little difficulty, which is picked out of Scripture and thrown in their teeth. I believe we ought to act on the aggressive far more than we do, and to press home on the adversaries of [Biblical] inspiration the enormous difficulties of their own position.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Inspiration, Believe

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• An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.

  Orson Scott Card

  Christian, Eye, People

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Shadow Quintet”, p.120, Macmillan

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• A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce inconclusive reasons and offer occasion for unbelievers to scoff at a faith based on such ground.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Faith, Men, Reason

  Saint Thomas Aquinas (1951). “Philosophical Texts”, London : Oxford University Press

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• Allah will support the just state even if it is led by unbelievers, but Allah will not support the oppressive state even if it is led by believers

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Support, States, Believer

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• It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life.

  John Stuart Mill

  Christ, Virtue, Easy

  John Stuart Mill (1874). “Three Essays on Religion”, p.255, New York : H. Holt

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• I've never been one for religion, but yet I've never been what ye could call an unbeliever. What I say is, nothin' don't seem impossible once you've clapped eyes on a whale.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Eye, Whales, Impossible

  Elizabeth Goudge (2017). “Green Dolphin Country”, p.219, Hachette UK

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• People get so used to the dark that they think it's growing brighter. It's possible to fraternize with unbelievers until false doctrine becomes less and less objectionable.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Dark, Thinking

  Vance Havner (1986). “The best of Vance Havner”

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• To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Life, Faith, Prayer

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• Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for repentance of sin and ask for God’s forgiveness, prayer is the spiritual dynamite that obliterates the darkness and despair of a sin-soaked soul.

  Franklin Graham

  Spiritual, Prayer, Powerful

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