It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.
It’s considered perfectly normal in this society to approach dying people who you don’t know but who are unbelievers and say, ‘Now are you gonna change your mind?’ That is considered almost a polite question.
Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel to unbelievers
The son of God is the same as the son of man; the son of man is the same as the son of God. God, the father, is the same as Christ, the son; Christ, the son, is the same as God, the father. This language may appear confused to unbelievers, but Christians will readily understand it.
[Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain.
The impact of the holocaust on believers as well as unbelievers, on Jews as well as Christians, has not yet been evaluated. Not deeply, not enough.
It will not just be conservatives or liberals, Republicans or Democrats, people of faith or unbelievers that restore America. It will be individuals from all walks of life, all backgrounds, and all political persuasions who love liberty enough to fight to maintain it.
God is not hostile to sinners, but only to unbelievers.
A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
The devil does not tempt unbelievers and sinners who are already his own.
For Christians this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.
Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.
Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.
. . . Bin Laden's quotes from the Quaran resonated in my brain: "When you meet the unbelievers, strike them in the neck. " "If you do not go out and fight, God will punish you severely and put others in your place. " "Wherever you find the polytheists, kill them, seize them, besiege them, ambush them. " "You who believe, do not take the Jews and Christians as friends; they are allies only to each other. Anyone who takes them as an ally becomes one of them.
When believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion.
The only separation the Bible knows is between believers on the one hand and unbelievers on the other. Any other kind of separation, division, disunity is of the devil. It is evil and from sin.
The people of Sydney who can speak of my work [on flying-machine models] without a smile are very scarce; it is doubtless the same with American workers. I know that success is dead sure to come, and therefore do not waste time and words in trying to convince unbelievers.
An eye for an eye? How Christian of you. ' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.
The missionary question is not, 'Where are there unbelievers?' and then send a missionary there. There are unbelievers everywhere! The missionary question is, 'Where are there people's who don't have any Christians in them or don't have a church strong enough to do the neighbor evangelism that we can do if we just want to do it?' That's the missionary question.
Jerusalem has been - and for many, still is - a metaphor for destruction and the vengeance of an offended God. She is the city where believers have killed unbelievers to give life to faith.
