Quotes About Belief And Unbelief

#1. Nearly every understanding is gained by a painful struggle in which belief and unbelief are dramatically interwoven.

Leopold Infeld

#2. To be free of belief and unbelief is my religion.

Omar Khayyam

#3. I would go so far as to say that it may even have caused him to think the more highly of them because their unbelief grew from a far more honest view of the wretchedness of things than the belief of the devout who see only what they choose to see and turn a blind eye on the rest.

Frederick Buechner

#4. Unbelief puts our circumstances between us and God; faith puts God between us and our circumstances.

Tracie Miles

#5. {In a letter to his friend Rudolf Wagner}

I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#6. As a society of unbelief, Western culture is devoid of a sense of journey, of adventure, because it lacks belief in much more than the cultivation of an ever-shrinking horizon of self-preservation and and self-expression.

Stanley Hauerwas

#7. Unbelief is a belief.

J.M. Coetzee

#8. Fuck this.
Fuck this wondering. Fuck this trying and trying. Fuck this belief that two people can become one ideal. Fuck this helplessness. Fuck this waiting for something to happen that probably won't ever happen.

David Levithan

#9. Belief in God, without belief in the Prophet (SAWW), would still be unbelief.

Wasif Ali Wasif

#10. Unbelief is a burden, but the pretence of belief, hypocrisy, is death to all that is decent in you.

David Staines

#11. Faith means I chose not to know, which is different than ignorance which refuses to know.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#12. 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

#13. Belief cannot argue with unbelief, it can only preach to it.

Karl Barth

#14. All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. 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

#16. Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart.

Ann Voskamp

#17. Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

Sigmund Freud

#18. Belief is like love: it cannot be compelled; and as any attempt to compel love produces hate, so it is the attempt to compel belief which first produces real unbelief.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#19. With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#20. From the house of unbelief
to true religion
is a single breath;
From the world of doubt
to certainty
is a single breath;
Enjoy this precious single breath,
for the harvest
of our whole lives
is that same one breath.

Omar Khayyam

#21. 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

#22. You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do ... and yet, in this alone, I am afraid, you have already been fooling yourself.

Criss Jami

#23. It's not easy to change world views. Faith has its own momentum and belief is comfortable. To restructure reality is traumatic and scary. That is why many intelligent people continue to believe: unbelief is an unknown.

Dan Barker

#24. All unbelief is the belief of a lie.

Horatius Bonar

#25. Unbelief and belief are both marching on His road, while both are saying, 'He is one and He has no associates'.

Idries Shah

#26. Tell me, Anna, if man is capable of projecting his belief onto the cosmos, isn't it possible by the same token, that he can project his unbelief onto the cosmos?

Michael D. O'Brien

#27. Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

Frederick Buechner

#28. It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

Eric Hoffer

#29. 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

#30. In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief

Walter Lippmann

#31. 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

#32. Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#33. Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#34. 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

#35. You call yourself an Atheist because you don't believe in the supernatural. But one thing you do not realize is that your unbelief in the supernatural is a belief in its own nature.

King Samuel Benson