Unbelief – Page 9

Skepticism is unbelief in

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. A man does not see, that, as he eats, so he thinks: as he deals, so he is, and so he appears; he does not see that his son is the son of his thoughts and of his actions; that fortunes are not exceptions but fruits; that relation … Read more

When the literary class

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

Faith does not increase,

Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief. Abu Hanifa

Theism is so confused

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

I am shy to

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

Unbelief is judged by

Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.
R. C. Sproul

Before I can call

Before I can call upon Christ as my Savior, I have to understand that I need a savior. I have to understand that I am a sinner. I have to have some understanding of what sin is.I have to understand that God exists. I have to understand that I am estranged from that God, and that I am exposed to that God’s judgment. I don’t reach out for a savior unless I am first convinced that I need a savior. All of that is pre-evangelism. It is involved in the data or the information that a person has to process with his mind before he can either respond to it in faith or reject it in unbelief.
R. C. Sproul

It is no advantage

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

Saint Augustine