Top 100 Not Believing Quotes
#2. Not believing in yourself will cause you to miss out on life and waste your life.
Janice Almond
#4. Faith is not believing that God can, but that God will.
Abraham Lincoln
#5. At its root, this is what faith is. It is not believing in God. It's believing God.
R.C. Sproul
#6. Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.
Swami Vivekananda
#7. Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
Timothy Keller
#8. Believing in everything at the same time is the same as not believing in anything at all.
Adil Hussain
#9. It all went back to problems we had talked about before, you know, such as the British not believing in formation bombing and not believing in daytime bombing.
Stuart Symington
#10. It is not what you believe that matters; it is how you respond with your heart and your actions. It is not believing in Christ that matters; it is becoming like him
Pelagius
#11. In the year 399 B.C.[E.] he was accused of "introducing new gods and corrupting the youth," as well as not believing in the accepted gods. With a slender majority, a jury of five hundred found him guilty.
Jostein Gaarder
#12. Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
Leon Trotsky
#13. It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.
Blaise Pascal
#14. In a post-modern culture we need an apologetic that is felt and seen because if post-moderns are not feeling it, they are not believing it.
Ravi Zacharias
#15. There's a lot I don't understand ... but not understanding is better not believing - Ambrose
Amy Harmon
#17. Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
Antonio Porchia
#18. At the most basic level, self-deception is fooling ourselves into believing something that is false -- or -- not believing something that is true.
Cortney S. Warren
#19. The Bible is not interested in arguing, because if you state a thesis of belief you have already stated it's opposite; if you say, I believe in God, you have already suggested the possibility of not believing in him. [p.250]
Northrop Frye
#20. Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe in the ocean would not prevent you from drowning.
F. Paul Wilson
#21. If we are to reach certainty and true autonomy of realization, we need to be willing to be heretics. What's more, we need to become universal heretics, not believing anything that we do not know from direct experience, beyond stories, beyond hearsay, and even beyond the mind.
A.H. Almaas
#22. If you don't think you're close-minded for not believing in Zeus, then please don't accuse atheists of being close-minded for not believing in your god.
Greta Christina
#23. I've never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself.
Muhammad Ali
#24. You see, you don't get old from age, you get old from inactivity, from not believing in something.
Jack LaLanne
#25. Not believing in anything is also a religion .
Cesare Pavese
#26. It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#27. Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
Ben Stein
#28. Not believing that her wanting him alive wasn't enough to bring him back.
Rachel Joyce
#29. I've never been insulted by hateful satanists for not believing in their devil. Only by loving Christians for not believing in their God.
Ricky Gervais
#30. The commitment had disappeared, and although he still watched the imagined glory of stealing, she could see now he was not believing. He was trying to believe it, and that's never a good sign.
Markus Zusak
#31. I believe in staying open to possibility. What is the point of not believing, closing the door? Just leave it open, see what comes in.
A.M. Homes
#32. Basic atheism is not a belief. It is the lack of belief. There is a difference between believing there is no god and not believing there is a god - both are atheistic, though popular usage has ignored the latter.
Dan Barker
#33. By not using it. By not believing in it anymore. Belief, having faith in something, is a very powerful thing,
David Baldacci
#34. You're the only person I know who can take communion despite not believing in God and not commit blasphemy. The only person I know.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#35. Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?
Stephen Fry
#36. God is a crutch? Yeah, well, not believing in God is a coma.
Brad Stine
#37. To sneer at others for not believing the same as you is the height of arrogance and elitism, the top failings of any leader who governs at the grace of the people.
Robert J. Crane
#38. And then she did something completely unexpected. Having spent the last five minutes complaining about him, and not believing anything that he told her, she came over and hugged him, and kissed his hair.
John Connelly
#39. Whatever, I know how to treat a girl," he said defensively as he glanced at Haven for confirmation, clearly not believing his own words. She nodded reassuringly, and he smiled. "See?
J.M. Darhower
#40. The trouble with believing conspiracies is you start seeing them everywhere, right? And everything becomes a part of them. But, of course, the trouble with not believing them is becoming a dupe.
J. Ross Clara
#41. I'm in shock now. I'm not believing this, Mitch. This is like a bad dream, only much worse." "And this is only the beginning.
John Grisham
#42. I always say the first sign of a good idea is a lot of people not believing in it. I can tell you this right now, if you have an idea that makes complete logical sense and people don't believe in it, then you probably have a brilliant idea.
Steve Stoute
#43. Not believing in what you have to sell This is blindingly obvious but perhaps is the number one reason why many salespeople do not succeed. Not even the most accomplished actor can consistently get away with selling something they fundamentally don't believe in.
Simon Bozeat
#45. It'll be all right, my love," he assured me quietly.
"Right," I whispered, not believing him.
His hand brought mine to his chest as his other hand came out, hooked me around the neck and pulled me to him. "If it isn't, I'll make it so," he declared. "That's a vow.
Kristen Ashley
#46. Yesterday," he said, "we was not believing in giants, was we? Today we is not believing in snozzcumbers. Just because we happen not to have actually seen something with our own two little winkles, we think it is not existing.
Roald Dahl
#47. I always believed in the YouTube community and myself. I saw something there. The most difficult thing was others not believing in me. I had a lot of friends in Los Angeles who really thought I was crazy for leaving a steady acting job to start on YouTube.
Rosanna Pansino
#48. There are many gods which Christians reject. I just believe in one less god then they do. The reasons that you might give for your atheism toward the Roman gods are likely the same reasons I would give for not believing in Jesus.
Dan Barker
#49. If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.
Blaise Pascal
#50. Jack glanced toward the dressing room, not believing that all the time he had been with her, she had been half-naked...
Terry Spear
#51. They won't love you anymore; they would start disrespecting you and hating you because you turned to be an infidel for them by not believing anymore in what they believe.
M.F. Moonzajer
#52. If you are sad and depressed, that means you're not believing God.
Gloria Copeland
#53. What's the good of not believing? Today it's your wife you don't believe; tomorrow it's God Himself you won't take stock in.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#54. Tell her the three keys to wisdom: not believing all you hear, not spending all you have, and not sleeping all you want. These will be difficult for her until she graduates from college.
Harry H. Harrison Jr.
#55. I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.
Michael Newdow
#56. You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you.
Brett Hoebel
#58. If God does not exist, we will lose nothing by believing in him; but if God does exist, we will lose everything by not believing.
Anonymous
#59. Worry has everything to do with lack of faith, and lack of faith has a lot to do with not believing in yourself as much as you believe in others.
Art Hochberg
#60. How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc.! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God, what difficulty is there?
Blaise Pascal
#61. My eyes widened at the ball of orange fluff squeezing out from under the counter, blinking and stretching.
I looked again, not believing.
"It's a cat," I said, winning the Pulitzer prize for incredible intellect.
Kim Harrison
#62. I don't blame any one for not believing my history. If I had not experienced what I have, I could not have believed it myself.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#63. God says that we can learn a great deal about Him just by observing nature. Because He has spoken through His universe, all men are without excuse for not believing in Him. This is why the Psalmist said: "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God" [Psalm 14:1 KJV].
Billy Graham
#64. People stay in relationships for all kinds of reasons that have nothing to do with love - including not believing they deserve better.
Jessica Hawkins
#65. To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.
Maurice Sendak
#67. Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.
Beth Moore
#68. California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks.
S.E. Hinton
#69. Believing in love isn't like believing in flying reindeer. It's like believing in rain. Or summer. Or Christmas. Love is real and steady and absolutely essential to any kind of life. Not believing in it doesn't make it any less so.
Sabrina Jeffries
#70. There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.
William Sloane Coffin Jr.
#71. I brought killer intensity to my workouts ... It's not enough to just show up and do the workout. You have to bring something to it ... What was your intention? If you are not believing with all fervour and relentlessness in what it is you want to do, no one is going to do that for you.
Lynn Jennings
#72. It's very strange to be an imaginary friend. You can't be suffocated and you can't get sick and you can't fall and break your head and you can't catch pneumonia. The only thing that can kill you is a person not believing in you.
Matthew Green
#73. The Countess was very good company and not really the featherhead she seemed; all one had to do with her was to observe the simple condition of not believing a word she said.
Henry James
#74. and a cut along one arm where she'd scraped it on a piece of sharp plaster. But otherwise ok. She smiled grimly. "I'm free," she whispered, as if not believing it. She jumped to her feet and threw her
Rayven T. Hill
#75. On top of dealing with the emotional trauma associated with conscious and unconscious recalling, you must deal with the possibility of no one believing you or making you doubt your experiences. When women speak out about their abusers, they have to deal with the police and society not believing them
Malebo Sephodi
#76. I always doubt people ... I've survived by not believing in other human beings.
Julianna Baggott
#77. How do you let magic die?" I said slowly. I didn't know why, but I felt a great sense of loss at this. "By not using it. By not believing in it anymore. Belief, having faith in something, is a very powerful thing, Vega.
David Baldacci
#78. I've gone through most of my life not believing anything. Either I know or I don't know, or I think.
John Trudell
#79. Believing, too, that is not enough. You cannot just believe. Your belief must have a purpose.
Ian Baucom
#80. I'd been given opportunities others hadn't and I've been wasting them, and now I have to really wonder if it is too late." "It's not," I whispered, truly believing it.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#81. It's not terrible, people telling you you're great; what's terrible is when you start believing it.
Woody Harrelson
#82. We are not saved by denying self, or taking up our cross, or doing anything else, we are saved by simply believing in Jesus.
R.A. Torrey
#83. Humility applied to convictions does not mean believing things any less; it means treating those who hold contrary beliefs with respect and friendship.
John Dickson
#84. It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.
Augusto Roa Bastos
#85. My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing in myself.
Valerie June
#86. If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don't see any problem with a person being a Christian and believing in evolution. But that's not how textbooks define evolution. They define evolution as being random and undirected without plan or purpose.
Lee Strobel
#87. Play for one another, and play the right way. The right way is believing in what's on your chest and not what's on your back.
Kevin Ollie
#88. I'm not in this just to change the law. It's about changing society. I want gay kids to grow up believing that they can get married, that they can join the Scouts, that they can choose the life they want to live.
Evan Wolfson
#90. Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
Franz Kafka
#91. I do not put much stock in "believing in God." The grammar of "belief" invites a far too rationalistic account of what it means to be a Christian. "Belief" implies propositions about which you get to make up your mind before you know the work they are meant to do.
Stanley Hauerwas
#92. We do not act as your precious Christians do, slaughtering other Christians for believing the wrong way. Yes, we ask for payment. That is the price of safety. But we allow all people under our rule to believe what they will, so long as they do not disturb the peace.
Kiersten White
#93. I don't have a specific mantra; It's more about believing that I'm tough. I've been through a lot, and I'm not wiling to let myself get beat.
Katie Hoff
#94. Believing that there is no God does not mean that there isn't one.
Ray Comfort
#95. One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.
Nelson Mandela
#96. When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.
Robin Trower
#97. BEDE. (ubi sup.) Repent, therefore, and believe; that is, renounce dead works; for of what use is believing without good works? The merit of good works does not, however, bring to faith, but faith begins, that good works may follow.
Thomas Aquinas
#98. He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that they who talk of such things never do them.
Daniel Defoe
#99. For every item that carries the darkness of humanity there's one that holds the light. And that light is worth believing in. Not just in others, but in yourself as well.
C.M. Rayne
#100. In difficult times, we're not supposed to quit believing; we're not supposed to quit growing.
Joel Osteen
