Infidelity – Zitate

No matter where the skeptical thought originates, or how it gets access to our minds, we see at once that it flattens the level of life and every aspiration. It makes our character less vigorous. The gospel is not simply a philosophy of religion or law of life, but it is an apocalypse, showing the heavens to our thought, and so bringing its spiritual benedictions to every heart and life.

— R. S. Storrs

  ​ Admit their maxims, and the universe returns to a frightful chaos; all things are thrown into disorder upon the earth; all the notions of virtue and vice are overthrown; the most inviolable laws of society are abolished: the discipline of morality is swept away; the government of states and empires ceases to be subject to any rule; the whole harmony of political institutions is dissolved; and the human race becomes an assemblage of madmen, barbarians, cheats, unnatural wretches who have no other laws but force, no other curb than their passions and the dread of authority, no other tie than irreligion and independence, no other gods than themselves.

— Massillon

The nurse of infidelity is sensuality. Youth are sensual. The Bible stands in their way. It prohibits the indulgence of the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life.

— Richard Cecil

What ardently we wish, we soon believe.

— Young

There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.

— Emmons

There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.

— Hannah More

The infidelity that springs from the heart is not to be reached by a course of lectures on the evidences of Christianity; argument did not cause, and argument will not remove it.

— Mark Hopkins

  ​ There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.

— Henry W. Shaw

Is it for the cultivated man, the man of broad and general views, to throw himself without reserve and with all his weight, into what, for aught he yet knows, may be only a cross-current and eddy, instead of the main stream of truth?

— Prof. Shedd

I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.

— Samuel Johnson

Freethinkers are generally those that never think at all.

— Laurence Sterne

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

— Warburton

When you see a mad dog, don't argue with him unless you are sure of your logic.

— C. H. Spurgeon

In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well-meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect. I believe that it is safe to say that Christianity is indebted for none of its progress in the world to rational conflicts with infidelity. I do not believe that a single great wrong has ever been overthrown by meeting the advocates of wrong in argument.

— J. G. Holland