He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
Quotes about disbelieve (16 Quotes)
We have the peculiar spectacle of a nation which, to a limited extent, practices Christianity without actively believing in Christianity. We are asked to turn to the Church for our enlightenment, but when we do this we find that the voice of the Church is not inspired. The voice of the Church today is the echo of our own voices. And the result of this experience, already manifest, is disillusionment.... The way out is the sound of a voice, not our voice, but the voice coming from somewhere not ourselves, in the existence of which we cannot disbelieve. It is the task of the Pastors to hear this voice, cause us to hear it, and to tell us what it says. If they cannot hear it, or if they fail to tell us what it says, we laymen are totally lost. Without it we are no more capable of saving the world than we are capable of creating it in the first place.
The will to disbelieve is the strongest deterrent to wider horizons.
Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
And those who disbelieve say concerning those who believe If it had been a good, they would not have gone ahead of us therein. And as they do not seek to be rightly directed thereby, they say It is an old lie.
There is that in the Gospel with which no one is allowed to argue. All we can do is believe or disbelieve to give it in our life the place of the final reality to which everything else must give way, or to refuse it that place. Many people ... would like.
No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.
Surely those who disbelieve, it being alike to them whether you warn them, or do not warn them, will not believe.
And when Our clear communications are recited to them, those who disbelieve say to those who believe Which of the two parties is best in abiding and best in assembly And how many of the generations have We destroyed before them who were better in respect of goods and outward appearance Say As for him who remains in error, the Beneficent God will surely prolong his length of days, until they see what they were threatened with, either the punishment or the hour then they shall know who is in more evil plight and weaker in forces And Allah increases in guidance those who go aright and ever-abiding good works are with your Lord best in recompense and best in yielding fruit.
To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.
One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.'
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
They desire that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you might be (all) alike therefore take not from among them friends until they fly (their homes) in Allah's way but if they turn back, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper.