Unbelievers Quotes - Page 3

• Democracy...is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only a half dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Home, America, Safety

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• It is true Christians have done terrible things throughout history. But they've always been acting in opposition to their Christian faith. There are no New Testament verses that say, Kill unbelievers.

  Robert Jeffress

  Christian, Acting, Done

  "Witness in Texas pool party incident speaks out; Palin blasts media's Duggar double standard". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 8, 2015.

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• The unbeliever knows his Koran best.

  Omar Khayyam

  Knows

  "Rubaiyat" by Omar Khayyam, translation by Richard Le Gallienne, 1048-1123.

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• We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.

  Saint Augustine

  Giving, Interpretation, Ridicule

  "'De genesi ad litteram libri duodecim' ('The Literal Meaning of Genesis')". Book by Augustine, Part I, www.newadvent.org. 415.

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• The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine - but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Catholic, Church, Divinity

  "The Life of Hilaire Belloc". Book by Robert Speaight, 1957.

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• Jerusalem has been - and for many, still is - a metaphor for destruction and the vengeance of an offended God. She is the city where believers have killed unbelievers to give life to faith.

  Amos Elon

  Cities, Giving, Atheism

  Amos Elon (1995). “Jerusalem, Battlegrounds of Memory”, Kodansha Globe

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• But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

  John Calvin

  Wish, Acting, Scripture

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.13, Oxford University Press

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• The author tells a story wherein a missionary friend of his was invited by unbelievers on a train ride to play cards. The friend declined, saying that he did not bring his hands with him. He explained to the astonished group that the hands attached to what they saw as his body belonged to the Lord, and he was thereby able to explain the Gospel.

  Watchman Nee

  Hands, Play, Groups

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• ... enforced Christianity was the surest breeding ground for unbelief. Many men either became unbelievers or met unbelievers during their military service.

  Bill Cooke

  Faith, Military, Men

  Bill Cooke (2003). “The Gathering of Infidels: A Hundred Years of the Rationalist Press Association”, Pyr Books

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• The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in so far as we are unbelievers, or, if believers, in so far as our inherited beliefs fail to represent the real problems of contemporary life) must face alone, or, at best with only tentative, impromptu, and not often very effective guidance. This is our problem as modern, "enlightened" individuals, for whom all gods and devils have been rationalized out of existence.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Religious

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• For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.

  Plato

  Men, Evil, Religion

  Plato (1934). “The Laws of Plato”

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• If asked whether you love God, say nothing. This is because if you say, 'I do not love God,'you are an unbeliever. If, on the other hand, you say, 'I do love God,' your actions contradict you.

  Al-Fudhayl bin 'Iyyadh

  Wisdom, Islamic, Hands

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• If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed in polygamy; that he persecuted for opinion's sake; that he will punish forever, and that he hates an unbeliever, the effect in my judgment will be bad. It always has been bad. This belief built the dungeons of the Inquisition. This belief made the Puritan murder the Quaker.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Hate, Believe, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Interviews”

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• On seeing the marsupials in Australia for the first time and comparing them to placental mammals: “An unbeliever . . . might exclaim 'Surely two distinct Creators must have been at work'”

  Charles Darwin

  Thinking, Two, Australia

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• Do you know that every unbeliever is filled with a demon spirit?

  Benny Hinn

  Spirit, Demon, Filled

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• He listens equally to the prayers of the believer and the unbeliever.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spiritual, Prayer, Believer

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• More often than not, it is what you are rather than what you say that will bring an unbeliever to Christ.
  This, then, is the ultimate apologetic. For the ultimate apologetic is: your life.

  William Lane Craig

  Christ, Apologetic, Ultimate

  "Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics". Book by William Lane Craig, 1994.

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• If Christians could be trained to provide solid evidence for what they believe and good answers to unbelievers’ questions and objections, then the perception of Christians would slowly change. Christians would be seen as thoughtful people to be taken seriously rather than as emotional fanatics or buffoons. The gospel would be a real alternative for people to embrace.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Real, Believe

  William Lane Craig (2010). “On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision”, p.18, David C Cook

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• God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline. …To the unbeliever the fact of suffering only convinces him that God is not to be trusted, does not love us. To the believer, the opposite is true.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Heart, Opposites, Discipline

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• Facing death calmly is praiseworthy only if one faces it alone. Death together is no longer death, even for unbelievers. The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning. When love is our whole life, what difference is there between living together and dying together ?

  Raymond Radiguet

  Lying, Love Is, Differences

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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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• The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of danger and sacrifice and utilised me as a martyr; the Church established by law transformed me into an unbeliever and an antagonist.

  Annie Besant

  Sacrifice, Law, Catholic

  Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”

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• It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would call themselves unbelievers often use the word gesturally, as a ready-made synonym for mystery. But if nature abhors a vacuum, Christ abhors a vagueness. If God is love, Christ is love for this one person, this one place, this one time-bound and time-ravaged self.

  Christian Wiman

  Writing, Self, People

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• If you are a believer married to an unbeliever I want to tell you that the greatest witness that you can be to them is to try to be the same all the time. Don't let the way they act control you. Dave didn't let my actions control him. He stayed happy, and that just made me madder, because unhappy people just want to make other people unhappy, but it finally broke through to me that he's got a stability and a joy and a peace that I did not have.

  Joyce Meyer

  People, Joy, Unhappy

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• The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Miracle, Facts, Realist

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.53, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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