Unbelief

Unbelief is a lack (or rejection) of belief, especially religious belief, but extending to anything in which belief can be held.

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Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 826.

• The fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
  • Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, The Everlasting No, Book II, Chapter VII.

• There is no stretch in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.
  • George MacDonald, The Marquis of Lossie (1877), Chapter XLII.

• Unbelief is blind.
  • John Milton, Comus (1637), line 519.

• I'm from Missouri; you must show me.
  • Col. Willard D. Vandiver. See Literary Digest (Jan. 28, 1922), p. 42, where origin is discussed at length.