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Unbelief: Quotations from Burning Words

Unbelief makes a man guilty of the vilest contempt of Christ, and the whole design of redemption by Him.— JOHN FLAVEL

Surely Scripture is right when it makes the sin of sins that unbelief, which is at bottom nothing else than a refusal to take the cup of salvation. Surely no sharper grief can be inflicted upon the Spirit of God than when we leave His gifts neglected and unappropriated.— ALEXANDER MACLAREN

There is nothing I feel more than the criminality of not trusting Christ without doubt without doubt. Oh, to think what Christ is, what He did, and whom He did it for, and then not to believe Him, not to trust Him! There is no wickedness like the wickedness of unbelief. How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered. --— GUESSES AT TRUTH

A refusal to believe that God loves us is the unbelief which destroys the soul. -— E. N. KIRK

"He will reprove the world of sin"- not because men swear and lie and steal and get drunk and murder- "of sin because they believe not on me."— D. L. MOODY

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

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.— E. F. BURR

Why does a man refuse to believe? Because he has confidence in himself; because he has not a sense of his own sins; because he has not love in his heart to his Lord and Saviour. Unbelief men are responsible for. 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, just because it is the whole being, affections, will, conscience, and all, as well as the understanding, which are concerned in it.— ALEXANDER MACLAREN

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 utterly.— E. F. BURR