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The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. -- Thomas Carlyle
Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief. -- Edwin Louis Cole
Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief. -- Sigmund Freud
Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest. -- Ellen G. White
No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief. -- John Calvin
Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die. -- David Wilkerson
I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return. -- A. N. Wilson
All unbelief is the belief of a lie. -- Horatius Bonar
Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief. -- E. M. Forster
If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning. -- Euripides
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A refusal to believe that God loves us is the unbelief which destroys the soul. -- Edward Norris Kirk
Unbelief is safe, because it takes no risk and almost always gets what it expects. -- Bill Johnson
How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered. -- Augustus William Hare
There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief. -- Thomas Carlyle
In all unbelief there are these two things: a good opinion of one's self, and a bad opinion of God. -- Horatius Bonar
When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve. -- George MacDonald
All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black. -- Robert Browning
If one's conscience is willing to confess whatever sins have been committed, including the sin of unbelief, it will be sorrowful in a godly way, earnestly desiring the mercy of God. -- Watchman Nee
I know of no condition worse than that of the man who has little or no light on the supreme religious questions, and who at the same time is making no effort to come to the light. -- Enoch Fitch Burr
It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead. -- Helena Blavatsky
Surely Scripture is right when it makes the sin of sins that unbelief, which is at bottom nothing else than a refusal to take the cup of salvation. Surely no sharper grief can be inflicted upon the Spirit of God than when we leave His gifts neglected and unappropriated. -- Alexander MacLaren
At the conscious approach of death, faith in the Biblical Religion, with its God and Christ and written Revelation, never weakens, but almost or quite always strengthens, and very often advances to a splendid assurance; while unbelief under the same circumstances never strengthens, but almost or quite always weakens and falters, and very often fails utterly. -- Enoch Fitch Burr
Unbelief is a belief. -- J. M. Coetzee
Unbelief is the greatest of sins. -- Thomas Aquinas
Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine. -- Richard Cecil
Unbelief in the supernatural is a belief in its own nature. -- Derric Yuh Ndim
Unbelief was the first sin, and pride was the first-born of it. -- Stephen Charnock
Unbelief is like gravity, it's always pulling down on the authority of Scripture. -- Mark Dever
Unbelief will destroy the best of us; faith will save the worst of us. -- Charles Spurgeon
Unbelief puts our circumstances between us and God; faith puts God between us and our circumstances. -- Tracie Miles
Unbelief puts our circumstance between us and God, but faith puts God between us and our circumstances. -- F.B. Meyer
Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its faith not in the living God, but in dying men. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself. -- R. C. Sproul
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
Unbelief is infectious! The unbelief of one strengthens the unbelief of another, just as the faith of one strengthens the faith of another. -- Arthur W. Pink
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
Unbelief does nothing but darken and destroy. It makes the world a moral desert, where no divine footsteps are heard, where no angels ascend and descend, where no living hand adorns the fields, feeds the birds of heaven, or regulates events. -- Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher
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
Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments. Unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its trust, not in the living God but in dying men. The unbeliever denies the selfsufficiency of God and usurps attributes that are not his. This dual sin dishonors God and ultimately destroys the soul of man. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
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
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. -- George Eliot
I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it. -- Christopher Hitchens
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
Is he not a God that showeth mercy and keepeth covenant? Of all sins, it seems to me that the sin of unbelief is the most dishonouring to God. -- Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf. -- Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead. -- Helena Blavatsky
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
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
Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beware the unbelief of others. It's contagious! -- Jim George
The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief. -- Graham Greene
The great paralysis of our heart is unbelief. -- Oswald Chambers
The opposite of patience is not impatience, but unbelief. -- Jackie Pullinger
The one thing that hinders God is our unbelief. -- F.B. Meyer
To be free of belief and unbelief is my religion. -- Omar Khayyam
The opposite of joy is not sorrow. It is unbelief. -- Leslie Weatherhead
There is no worse sin than unbelief toward the gospel. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Belief cannot argue with unbelief, it can only preach to it. -- Karl Barth
Never dig up in unbelief what you have sown in faith. -- James Gordon Lindsay
Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all. -- Albert Einstein
While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them. -- Hudson Taylor
The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief. -- Thomas Russell
In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief -- Walter Lippmann
Belief in God, without belief in the Prophet (SAWW), would still be unbelief. -- Wasif Ali Wasif
Unbelievers enjoy the security of their unbelief; there is great confidence in ignorance. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. -- George Eliot
The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Allah made the faith for you as a purity from polytheism (and unbelief). -- Fatima bint Muhammad
It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible. -- Eric Hoffer
Father, O father! what do we here In this land of unbelief and fear? -- William Blake
Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history. -- Edith Hamilton
A rebellion against God, even as believers, is fueled by the toxic fumes of unbelief. -- James MacDonald
Sometimes God calls a person to unbelief in order that faith may take new forms. -- Christian Wiman
Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf. -- Richard Cecil
Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly. -- Alice Walker
Words that are not spoken are much more powerful than words that are spoken in unbelief. -- Charles Capps
Think against your feelings; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking. -- J. I. Packer
Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief. -- Abu Hanifa
Nearly every understanding is gained by a painful struggle in which belief and unbelief are dramatically interwoven. -- Leopold Infeld
The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God's Word is true whether we believe it or not. Human unbelief cannot alter the character of God. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Today secular faith is ebbing, and it is the apostles of unbelief who are left stranded on the beach. -- John Gray
One man in a meeting, filled with unbelief, can make a place for the devil to have a seat. -- Smith Wigglesworth
Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration. -- Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
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
Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. -- Richard Cecil
Whether you realize it or not, your ongoing battle with unbelief drives all your sinful thoughts, emotions, desires, and actions. -- James MacDonald
Those who do not believe do not pray. This is a good functional definition of faith. Faith prays, unbelief does not. -- John Hardon
We all have in our hearts some areas of unbelief. Let us say to the Lord: I believe! Help my unbelief. -- Pope Francis
He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace. -- Blaise Pascal
... enforced Christianity was the surest breeding ground for unbelief. Many men either became unbelievers or met unbelievers during their military service. -- Bill Cooke
Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough. -- Frederick Buechner
Satan will battle you with doubt and unbelief, but God has victory waiting for you if you'll keep trusting and believing Him. -- Joyce Meyer
There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief. -- Smith Wigglesworth
The Jews are returning to their land of unbelief. They are spiritually blind and desperately in need of their Messiah and Savior. -- Jerry Falwell
God is an inexhaustible source of all we need. Our unbelief is discovered in how little we avail ourselves of this infinite fountain -- Paul Washer
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
Fear is really the sin of unbelief.I am talking about fear coming from believing what we see over what God tells us is true. -- Jean A. Sturgill
I believe all that God ever revealed, and I never hear of a man being damned for believing too much; but they are damned for unbelief. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
People are given a false alternative: the choice between an unenlightened belief and an enlightened unbelief. Most intellectuals seem to pay homage to the second variant. -- Eugen Drewermann
Our problem in America is not with atheists or the pagans who are consistent with their unbelief, but with believers who are inconsistent with their belief. -- Randall Terry
I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err; but in this matter I cannot say, "Lord help my unbelief." -- Robert Southey
The best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying our unbelief starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day. -- Emily Giffin
Profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason, and it is the superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief. -- Humphry Davy
Narrowness is the mother of unbelief. Obtain a broad outlook if you would agree with God in your philosophy and be able to transmit God's own thought into your life. -- Joseph Cook
If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
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
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
I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath. -- Jean Paul
So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean. -- Will Durant
That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back and attempt to revise and rewrite history in their own image. -- D. James Kennedy
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
Theism is so confused and the sentences in which "God" appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to speak of belief or unbelief, faith or unfaith, is logically impossible. -- A.J. Ayer

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