Unbelievers Quotes - Page 4

• Unbelievers enjoy the security of their unbelief; there is great confidence in ignorance.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Ignorance, Enjoy, Great Confidence

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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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• It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

  Jean Cocteau

  Religious, Spirit

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• The question is not: do we believe in God? but rather: does God believe in us? And the answer is: only an unbeliever could have created our image of God; and only a false God could be satisfied with it.

  Kenneth Patchen

  Believe, Doe, Answers

  Kenneth Patchen (1961). “The Journal of Albion Moonlight”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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• MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mean, Degrees, Development

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.164, University of Georgia Press

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• An argument frequently used by believers [is] to force unbelievers to soften their terms by accepting their opponents' definition; "Atheist" means without a concept of God that is logically convincing, not with proof that God does not exist.

  Jim Herrick

  Atheist, Mean, Doe

  Jim Herrick (1985). “Against the Faith: Essays on Deists, Skeptics, and Atheists”

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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 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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• 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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• "When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?"
  "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"
  "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet . Pooh nodded thoughtfully.
  "It's the same thing," he said.
  "What's that?" the Unbeliever asked.
  "Wisdom from the Western Taoist,"I said.
  "It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh," he said.
  "It is," I said.
  "That's not about Taoism," he said.
  "Oh, yes it is," I said.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Wisdom, Morning, Food

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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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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• 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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• The unbeliever knows his Koran best.

  Omar Khayyam

  Knows

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

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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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• The believer is sensible of his infirmities, for it is supposed that he is wrestling under them. He sees, he feels, that he is not man enough for his work; that his own hands are not sufficient for him, nor his own back for his burden; this is what drives him out of himself to the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And thus he lies open to the help of the Spirit, while proud nature in unbelievers is left helpless.

  Thomas Boston

  Jesus, Lying, Wrestling

  Thomas Boston (1844). “Select Works of Thomas Boston: With a Memoir of His Life and Writings”, p.522

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• No man is an unbeliever, but because he will be so; and every man is not an unbeliever, because the grace of God conquers some, changes their wills, and binds them to Christ.

  Stephen Charnock

  Men, Grace, Conquer

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• Many unbelievers have threatened or prophesied the destruction of the Bible. Few people know the names of the skeptics. Everyone knows the names of Moses and Isaiah and Luke and Paul.

  William Henry Houghton

  Names, People, Moses

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• Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Writing, Secret

  Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. Freud (1960). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”, p.453, Courier Corporation

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• If anyone dared to assert that the Pontiff had erred in this or that canonisation, we shall say that he is, if not a heretic, at least temerarious, a giver of scandal to the whole Church, an insulter of the saints, a favourer of those heretics who deny the Church's authority in canonizing saints, savouring of heresy by giving unbelievers an occasion to mock the faithful, the assertor of an erroneous opinion and liable to very grave penalties.

  Pope Benedict XIV

  Giving, Faithful, Church

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• Muslims insult all other religions. The Quran is an insult to the Jews, the Christians and everyone else. It calls the Jews apes, pigs and rats. All the non-believers are najis (filthy, impure) and hell bond. The Quran even instructs the Muslims to fight the unbelievers, chop their fingertips, behead them, crucify them and deal with them harshly. 5:33, 9:14, 9:73 However, Muslims went berserk when a Danish Newspaper published a few cartoons of Muhammad.

  Ali Sina

  Christian, Fighting, Pigs

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Obedience, Weak

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.228, Grove Press

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• The missionary question is not, 'Where are there unbelievers?' and then send a missionary there. There are unbelievers everywhere! The missionary question is, 'Where are there people's who don't have any Christians in them or don't have a church strong enough to do the neighbor evangelism that we can do if we just want to do it?' That's the missionary question.

  John Piper

  Christian, Strong, People

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• It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Character, Men, Should Have

  Benjamin Franklin (1962). “Representative selections: with introduction, bibliography, and notes”

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