If there are none
If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning. Euripides
Unbelief
People are given a
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
It is startling to
It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible. Eric Hoffer
At the conscious approach
At the conscious approach of death, faith in the Biblical Religion, with its God and Christ and written Revelation, never weakens, but almost or quite always strengthens, and very often advances to a splendid assurance; while unbelief under the same circumstances never strengthens, but almost or quite always weakens and falters, and very often fails … Read more
I know of no
I know of no condition worse than that of the man who has little or no light on the supreme religious questions, and who at the same time is making no effort to come to the light. Enoch Fitch Burr
The best reason to
The best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying our unbelief starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day. Emily Giffin
To lose ones faith-surpass
To lose ones faith-surpass The loss of an Estate- Because Estates can be Replenished- faith cannot-. Emily Dickinson
For forty years did
For forty years did unbelief, murmuring, and rebellion shut out ancient Israel from the land of Canaan. The same sins have delayed the entrance of modern Israel into the heavenly Canaan. In neither case were the promises of God at fault. It is the unbelief, the worldliness, unconsecration, and strife among the Lord’s professed people … Read more
Talk unbelief, and you
Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest. Ellen G. White
There are those who
There are those who insist that it is a very bad thing to question God. To them, “why?” is a rude question. That depends, I believe, on whether it is an honest search, in faith, for His meaning, or whether it is the challenge of unbelief and rebellion. Elisabeth Elliot