Top 100 Quotes About Unbelief
#1. Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.
Edwin Louis Cole
#2. The aim of Satanic power is to cut off communication with God. To accomplish this aim he deludes the soul with a sense of defeat, covers him with a thick cloud of darkness, depresses and oppresses the spirit, which in turn hinders prayer and leads to unbelief - thus destroying all power.
James O. Fraser
#3. I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.
Christopher Hitchens
#4. What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?
George Eliot
#5. Belief in God, without belief in the Prophet (SAWW), would still be unbelief.
Wasif Ali Wasif
#6. If the thought ever comes to you that everything that you have thought about God is mistaken and that there is no God, do not be dismayed. It happens to many people. But do not think that the source of your unbelief is that there is no God.
Leo Tolstoy
#7. Enforced Christianity was the surest breeding ground for unbelief. Many men either became unbelievers or met unbelievers during their military service.
Bill Cooke
#8. ignorance is the cause of the unbelief that fails of the inheritance. If, in our orthodox Churches, the abiding in
Andrew Murray
#9. Unbelief is a burden, but the pretence of belief, hypocrisy, is death to all that is decent in you.
David Staines
#10. We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divine love, studded with gems of sacrifice and adoration, or a thorny crown, filled with the cruel briars of unbelief, or selfishness, and sin ...
Aimee Semple McPherson
#11. In all unbelief there are these two things: a good opinion of one's self, and a bad opinion of God.
Horatius Bonar
#13. STRIVE with all diligence to keep out that monster unbelief. It so dishonours Christ, that He will withdraw His visible presence if we insult Him by indulging it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. His grace lifts us in spite of us ... it moves our lives forward on the conveyor belt of promise, even as we cling to our nagging doubts and unbelief.
Carl Prude Jr.
#18. Keep back no part of the precious truth, but speak what you know, and testify what you have seen. Let not the toil or darkness, or possible unbelief of your friends, weigh one moment in the scale. Up, and be marching to the place of duty, and there tell what great things God has shown to your soul.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#19. According to a recent poll, 36 percent of British Muslims (ages sixteen to twenty-four) think apostates should be put to death for their unbelief.60 Are these people "morally motivated," in Haidt's sense, or just morally confused? And
Sam Harris
#20. 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
#21. Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God Himself.
R.C. Sproul
#22. One might even state it as an axiom: when the church leaves out bits of its core teaching, heretics will pick them up, turn them into something new, and use them to spread doubt and unbelief.
N. T. Wright
#23. Unbelievers enjoy the security of their unbelief; there is great confidence in ignorance.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#24. 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
#25. Beyond Islam and unbelief there is a desert plain. For us, there is a passion in the midst of that expanse. The knower who reaches there will prostrate, there is neither Islam nor unbelief, nor any 'where' in that place.
Rumi
#26. He would have us without carefulness, without doubt, without cowardice. Our Master does not think so lightly of our unbelief as we do.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#27. 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
#29. If it's all true, then we're in the citadel of unbelief, where nightmares are dispatched with Lysol and scalpels and chemotherapy rather than with stakes and Bibles and wild mountain thyme.
Stephen King
#30. Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.
Albert Einstein
#32. My unbelief had saved me, but the poor creature who believes that everything is true is the victim of his dreams.
Leena Krohn
#33. Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
Edith Hamilton
#34. Whether you realize it or not, your ongoing battle with unbelief drives all your sinful thoughts, emotions, desires, and actions.
James MacDonald
#35. What is unbelief but the despair, dictated by the dominant powers, that nothing can really change?
Ched Myers
#36. God gives you the sight, the right, and the might to do great things, but you have to develop the fight! Courage doesn't happen without fear, doubt, and unbelief; courage overcomes all of these things to get the job done. How do we knock off fear or doubt out unbelief? Simple faith in God.
Tim Storey
#37. Withhold no part of the precious truth, but speak what you know and declare what you have seen. Do not allow the toil or darkness or possible unbelief of your friends to dissuade you. Let us rise and march to the place of duty, and there declare what great things God has shown to our soul.
Alistair Begg
#38. 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
#39. Very often it happens that prayer is on the lips, but in the heart cunning, incredulity or unbelief, so that by the lips the man seems near to God, whilst in his heart he is far from Him.
John Of Kronstadt
#41. Spiritual matters can often masquerade themselves in natural patterns of behavior. For example, unbelief disguises itself as skepticism and procrastination.
Kirby Clements
#42. 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
#43. The ultimate cause of spiritual depression is unbelief. For if it were not for unbelief, even the devil could do nothing. It is because we listen to the devil instead of listening to God that we go down before him and fall before his attacks.
David Lloyd-Jones
#44. It is the Jews who originated biblical exegesis (a critical analysis of the Bible), just as they were the first to criticize the forms and doctrines of Christianity ... Truly has Darmesteter written: 'The Jew was the apostle of unbelief, and every revolt of mind originated with him.'
Bernard Lazare
#45. The joy of the Lord is our strength in the Christian life; unbelief is our Kryptonite.
Tony Reinke
#46. Let us watch against unbelief, pride, and self-confidence . If we go forth in our own strength, we shall faint, and utterly fall; but having our hearts and our hopes in heaven, we shall be carried above all difficulties, and be enabled to lay hold of the prize of our high calling in Christ Jesus.
Matthew Henry
#47. I breathe in Your love, Lord, and I breathe out all negativity and unbelief.
Kathleen Hart
#48. 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
#49. We all have in our hearts some areas of unbelief. Let us say to the Lord: I believe! Help my unbelief.
Pope Francis
#50. Be careful for nothing, but in everything, by supplication and prayer, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. That is the Divine cure for all fear, anxiety, and undue concern of soul, all of which are closely akin to doubt and unbelief.
E. M. Bounds
#52. 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
#53. There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.
Smith Wigglesworth
#54. Only by using faith are we kept from practically losing it, and, on the contrary, to use faith is to lose the unbelief that hinders God's mighty acts.
George Muller
#55. Unbelief puts our circumstances between us and God; faith puts God between us and our circumstances.
Tracie Miles
#56. 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
#57. Unbelief squashes; faith teaches. Faith takes a boy aside, and tells him that this part of what he did was good, while that other part of what he did got in the way. And this is how to do it better next time.
Douglas Wilson
#58. The scorner has brought, in reference to himself, all religion and moral feeling to an end. He has sat down - is utterly confirmed in impiety, and makes a mock at sin. His conscience is seared, and he is a believer in all unbelief. Now, blessed is the man who sits not down in his SEAT. Adam Clarke.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#59. So watch your step, friends. Make sure there's no evil unbelief lying around that will trip you up and throw you off course, diverting you from the living God.
Eugene H. Peterson
#60. Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
Sigmund Freud
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. I admit that at times my prayer for my children is nothing more than vocalized unbelief aimed at God.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#64. The Jews are returning to their land of unbelief. They are spiritually blind and desperately in need of their Messiah and Savior.
Jerry Falwell
#65. The Holy Spirit cannot conquer the world with unbelief, nor can He save the world with a worldly Church. He calls for a crusade, a campaign, and an adventure of saving passion. For this enterprise He wants a separated, sanctified and sacrificial people.
Samuel Chadwick
#66. 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
#67. What is the meaning of Resurrection? ... is it not the exorcism of crippling unbelief, which renders us dead in life (Mark 9:22) rather than alive in our dying (8:35)?
Ched Myers
#68. Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.
John Piper
#69. 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
#70. It is unbelief that shuts the door to heaven and opens it to hell. It is unbelief that rejects the Word of God and refuses Christ as Savior. It is unbelief that causes men to turn a deaf ear to the Gospel.
Billy Graham
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.
Abu Hanifa
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. A rebellion against God, even as believers, is fueled by the toxic fumes of unbelief.
James MacDonald
#77. If there had been any unbelief in Mary, that could not prevent God from accomplishing his work in any other way which he might choose. But she is called blessed, because she received by faith the blessing offered to her, and opened up the way to God for its accomplishment.
John Calvin
#78. 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
#79. This time is very important in your life because God wants to lift this generation from failures, poverty, and unbelief
Sunday Adelaja
#80. Unbelief about the existence and personality of Satan has often proved the first step to unbelief about God.
J.C. Ryle
#81. 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
#82. There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.
Thomas Carlyle
#84. When we worry, we are telling God, "You are neither trustworthy nor in control, so I need to worry and scheme as I take matters into my own hands." In this way unbelief drives worry, for it is impossible to worry when we are trusting in the provision of our sovereign God.
James MacDonald
#86. Belief cannot argue with unbelief, it can only preach to it.
Karl Barth
#87. The things he had understood to be sin (murder, adultery, etc.) he now understood to be mere symptoms of the real problem: unbelief.
Michael Reeves
#88. 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
#89. Unbelief will destroy the best of us; faith will save the worst of us.
Charles Spurgeon
#90. Worry is common, it's not good for us, it accomplishes little, and it dishonors the God who cares for us. Worry may be our most enduring form of unbelief.
George Foster
#91. Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its faith not in the living God, but in dying men.
A.W. Tozer
#92. 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
#93. Fear of man is always part of a triad that includes unbelief and disobedience.
Edward T. Welch
#94. The fiercest storm is taking place in some of our churches - the unbelief and disobedience of God's Word.
Billy Graham
#95. Those who do not believe do not pray. This is a good functional definition of faith. Faith prays, unbelief does not.
John Hardon
#96. 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
#97. One man in a meeting, filled with unbelief, can make a place for the devil to have a seat.
Smith Wigglesworth
#98. Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never relaxing crusade against skepticism and against dogmatism, against unbelief and superstition ... [and therefore] 'On to God!
Max Planck
#99. Reckless predictions of the second coming of Christ create an artificial excitement among believers followed by a corresponding depression. In addition, it hardens skeptics in their unbelief and provides new fodder for cynics to mock the Christian faith.
Doug Batchelor
#100. 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
