UNBELIEF

Related Subjects: Atheism, Confidence, Credulity, Creeds, Doctrine, Doubt, Faith, Martyrdom, Opinion, Religion, Superstition, Trust

1. Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.—Bible, Mark 9:24
   

2. He who does not believe that God is above all is either a fool or has no experience of life.—CAECILIUS STATIUS
   

3. Alas! the fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.—CARLYLE, Sartor Resartus
   

4. There is no unbelief;
   Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod
   And waits to see it push away the clod
   He trusts in God.—LIZZIE YORK CASE, Unbelief
   

5. Blind unbelief is sure to err,
   And scan his work in vain;
   God is his own interpreter,
   And he will make it plain.—COWPER, Light Shining out of Darkness
   

6. 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, The Marquis of Lossie
   

7. If he be an unbeliever, he will be too profound and large-minded to ridicule religion or to act against it; he is too wise to be dogmatist or fanatic in his infidelity. He respects piety and devotion; he even supports institutions as venerable, beautiful, or useful, to which he does not assent; he honours the ministers of religion, and it contents him to decline its mysteries without assailing or denouncing them.—CARDINAL NEWMAN, The Idea of a University
   

8. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving: it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe.—THOMAS PAINE, The Age of Reason
   

9. I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines, but it will do me no good because I do not believe it.—RABELAIS
   

10. A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.—BERNARD SHAW,
    The Devil's Disciple

11. The temerity to believe in nothing.—TURGENIEV, Fathers and Sons