These, he contends, preserve to Protestantism a certain religious and Christian character, and will prevent it from ever lapsing into complete unbelief and irreligion.
She knew that the spirit of unbeliefpervaded the world, taking possession of thousands and destroying all life and effort.
Such, we are sure, has been the fact in this country, unless we identify Protestantism with pure unbeliefand indifference.
These are the men who make the Unbelief of which they afterwards so blindly and bitterly complain.
The history of religion shows that unbelief is never so prevalent as when the Creed is most rigid.
Every rejection of tradition, again, is unbelief with respect to it; and to those who hold its authority, it is the denial of an essential.
Is it not evident that Jesus attributed the unbelief of the Jews to Moral Causes, and that therefore, and only therefore, he condemned it?
If such was Christianity, unbelief would be a virtue, a prompting of devotion, a protest on behalf of God.
If not creeds, but Jesus the Christ was offered spiritually to the souls of men, unbelief would be soon no more.
In Galilee even the Son of God could do no great work, on account of the unbelief of the people.
The days are gone when it was held that study for the work of preaching the Gospel involved dishonour to the Holy Spirit and unbeliefconcerning the promise of the divine enlightenment and guidance.
It is pleasanter, no doubt, to seek the reasons for one's unbelief in intellectual than in moral directions.
Perhaps there was never a time in which the literature of unbelief had so great and general a currency as it has to-day.
Unbelief is not unfrequently the penalty of indolence.
When from poetry one turns to philosophy, he can see good reasons why hymnals and unbelief should be uncongenial.
Shew us how foolish it is to doubt Thee, since Thou Thyself dost set the questions which disturb us; reveal our unbelief to be faith fretting at its outworn form.
What this verse says in principle is clear: theoretical unbelief is not the worst sin in God's sight; any man who fails in the fundamental duties of rectitude and service has thereby denied the faith and is worse than an atheist.
With such misgivings, whether as habitual disturbers of our faith or as occasional moods of unbelief that come and go, most of us must be familiar.
If it is a question of holding creeds, unbelief is a creed as certainly as belief is; it says, I believe that there is no God or that God cannot be known.
Seemingly faint at heart over the unbelief of the people, Jesus sought strength in prayer.
This manifestation of malignant unbelief caused Jesus again to groan with sorrow if not indignation.
The Spirit of God was operative so far as the unbelief of men permitted.
Because of the unbelief of its people it became a subject of lamentation to Jesus when in sorrow He prefigured the judgment that would befall the place.
Their unbelief was so dense as to cause Him to marvel;[697] and because of their lack of faith He was unable to accomplish any great work except to heal a few exceptional believers upon whom He laid His hands.
And although unbelief, in its genus, is a mortal sin, yet a sudden movement of unbelief is a venial sin, because there is no mortal sin unless it be contrary to the law of God.
Again there seems to have been a certain movement of unbelief in Eve, since she doubted what the Lord had said, as appears from her saying (Gen.
Now hatred which is opposed to charity is a less grievous sin than unbelief or despair which are opposed to faith and hope.
If, however, the movement ofunbelief remains after this deliberation, it is a mortal sin.
On the contrary, A sudden movement of unbelief is a venial sin.
He saw the shadows of unbelief flying from the face of truth, as the mist of morning disappears before the rising sun.
Her queries concerning this subject were directed in the usual way, and were designed to prove that in consequence of unbelief in the Saviour, the sinner is expected to be cut off forever without mercy.
At the inn in Albany where the stage stops, we had some serious conversation on the subject of the ignorance andunbelief of man.
Along with this church-going there is, no doubt, a great deal of unbelief in India.
The unbelief of many educated natives, an unbelief springing both from repugnance to the Gospel and from dread of the sacrifices to which its acceptance would subject them, is fortified by the perusal of sceptical books and periodicals.
There was at this moment no future for either thorough-going unbelief or thorough-going piety.
Thus my father, in the solemn dignity of thoughts at the approaching end, still showed a gratified vanity that he, and not the doctor, had been right, and that his unbelief in medicine was well founded.
Surely, it is a great inconsistency and unbelief to find Christians showing the spirit of worldly carefulness, losing the comfort of trust in God amidst a host of distracting cares.
A man that is outspoken in unbelief and profligate in his morals is not within the Gospel net.
And sometimes worldly disappointments only make a man hard, bitter, and cynical, while spiritual doubt drives him into sheerunbelief and black despair.
Even undisguised unbelief in any deity at all it is often willing to tolerate, so long as the unbelief is rather a matter of dialectics than anything else, and makes no attempt at a crusade.
Yet there is in our nature an unaccountable reluctance to receive these, through the unbelief which works in us.
But let not unbelief teach you such manners as to make you leave the best bits behind you.
But they that have writ of the wars of Emmanuel against my servants, have testified that he could do no mighty work there because of their unbelief (Mark 6:5,6).
It begins in the unbelief of the heart, and ends in open sins in the life.
Again, this should admonish us to take time while it is proffered, lest we repent us of our unbelief and rebellion when we are deprived of it.
We are, or should be, quite as happy as believers; may we not suppose that, after the effect of a rude awakening from a beautiful dream has passed off, the convert to unbelief will settle down into the same condition of mind as ourselves?
The apologist of unbelief has no need to ask this of his readers.
It is a weird arrangement between Unbelief and Belief, which cannot possibly last much longer; meanwhile, it tends to confuse and delay the answer to that gravest of questions: "Is Christianity true?
Such Theists seem to me not only the best allies of Atheists, but even more effective labourers in the cause of unbelief than Atheists themselves.
He must, therefore, it seems, keep his unbelief to himself, unless he is prepared to show that the destruction of belief will be beneficial.
Can we deny that it is unbelief of those things that causeth this neglect and forgetting of them?
Oh that's all as I roved out': to expressunbelief in what someone says as quite unworthy of credit.
Unbelief sees it there, and says, "God won't give it me.
The Jews did not believe Him; they did not believe God had sent Him; they took Him to Calvary and murdered Him; and the first thing we find after He got up out of the grave was unbelief again.
At the West, along with much reckless and defiant unbelief in everything high and good, there is also a great deal of that terror-stricken pietism which refuses to attend the theatre unless it is very bad indeed, and is called "Museum.
Churches flourish in Cincinnati, and every shade of belief and unbelief has its organization, or at least its expression.
There are, for example, writers of note and influence at the present day, who are not ashamed publicly to assume the "deep personal sin" of a great logician to be the cause of his unbelief in a theologic dogma.
Absolute unbeliefin the facts was by no means my condition of mind.
Be it so: are you less biassed by your anti-christian unbelief and disposition?
Unbelief, as he had contemplated it, looked gallant, noble, and aspiring; but this unbelief seemed like a glimpse into that perdition which he had denied.
There were many more, the history of whose minds would have been the story of the anxious doubts and bold speculations of unbelief which swayed society in the waning of the eighteenth century.
The passages in which he so indignantly censures theunbelief of his day cannot but recur to one.
Luther speaks of it in his letters at that time as a “manifest miracle of God,” which puts our unbelief to shame.
In so far, therefore, he may be said to have turned away from the consequences of his own action and to have striven to slam the door which he had opened to unbelief and private judgment.
For, since you refuse to submit to the process of purification at the hands of the holy Yamabooshi, he is powerless to defend you from the evil influences evoked by your unbelief and defiance of truth.
The demon of unbelief and all-denial seemed rooted in me more firmly even than the Daij-Dzin.
To fortify my unbelief the more, I tried to bring back to my memory all the arguments used against a faith in such superstitions, that I had ever read or heard.
I pray that you may not repent of your unbelief and rashness.
