A Quote by J. M. Coetzee

Unbelief is a belief.

J. M. Coetzee

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J. M. Coetzee
South African - Novelist
Born: February 9, 1940

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

All unbelief is the belief of a lie.

Horatius Bonar

To be free of belief and unbelief is my religion.

Omar Khayyam

There’s something amazing about unbelief – it is able to fulfill its own expectations. Unbelief is safe because it takes no risk and almost always gets what it expects. Then, after a person gets the answer for their unbelief, they can say, I told you so.

Bill Johnson

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

Karl Barth

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

George Eliot

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

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have noticed that whenever a person gives up his belief in the Word of God because it requires that he should believe a good deal, his unbelief requires him to believe a great deal more. If there be any difficulties in the faith of Christ, they are not one-tenth as great as the absurdities in any system of unbelief which seeks to take its place.

Charles Spurgeon

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

Eric Hoffer

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

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

Leopold Infeld

The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm capitalizing like a German, but it doesn't matter whether it's faith in a person or in God, or belief in science or whatever, it's the desperate in-between state that makes for interesting dramatic tension.

Richard Dooling

We all have in our hearts some areas of unbelief. Let us say to the Lord: I believe! Help my unbelief.

Pope Francis

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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