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"Since I have always been a strong believer in God, I knew that He was with me, and only He could get me through that next step"
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Strange as it may seem to our Western egoism , the prospect of sharing in the general, impersonal immortality of the human soul kindles in the Sufi an enthusiasm as deep and triumphant as that of the most ardent believer in a personal life continuing beyond the grave. Jalaluddin, after describing the evolution of man in the material world and anticipating his further growth in the spiritual universe , utters a heartfelt prayer for what? for self-annihilation in the ocean of the Godhead .
— Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, in The Mystics of Islam (1914) edited by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, p. 124
I am a strong believer in equal pay for equal work, and I think that we ought to do better than we're doing.
Patricia Arquette
Face front, true believer!
stan lee— Often-used line on "Stan Lee's Soapbox" editorial pages.
There are those who deny me the right to speak of God, because I am not a believer. And I say that I have every right in the world. I want to talk about God because it is a problem that affects all humanity.
josé saramago— Interview with "El País", 2009.
I'm not a global warming believer. I'm not a global warming denier. I'm a global warming agnostic who believes instinctively that it can't be very good to pump lots of CO2 into the atmosphere but is equally convinced that those who presume to know exactly where that leads are talking through their hats.
charles krauthammer— Column, May 30, 2008, "Carbon Chastity: The First Commandment of the Church of the Environment" at jewishworldreview.com.Krauthammer’s column of February 20, 2014, published in The Washington Post under the title “The Myth of ‘Settled Science”, begins with almost the same words.
I have no regrets. If you regret things, you're sort of stepping backwards. I'm a believer in going forwards.
kate winslet— The Clive James Show (1998).
And whoever kills a believer intentionally, his punishment is hell, abiding therein: and Allah is wroth with him and He has cursed him and prepared for him a grievous chastisement.
— 93 Maulana Muhammad Ali translation
I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give whether it's bad or good. I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give whether it's bad or good.
sandra bullock
On that Day whatever cause prompteth the believer to believe in Him, the same will also be available to the unbeliever. But when the latter suffereth himself to be wrapt in veils, the same cause shutteth him out as by a veil. Thus, as is clearly evident today, those who have set their faces toward God, the True One, have believed in Him because of the Bayán, while such as are veiled have been deprived because of it.
báb— VI, 4 (The Persian Bayán)
I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
larry bird— Michael Marot (May 24, 2000) "Pacers Notebook/Pacers Make Turnaround", The Journal Gazette, p. 2B.
If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man, the real drama of life, in comparison with which the secular story of the race, is a puppet-show and the unfolding of the universe is a triviality, is the dialogue of the immortal soul and the eternal God. Yet it seems that there is nothing in the world so hard to discover as this. The theory refutes itself.
joseph mccabe— The Psychology of Religion (1927), p. 47
The work of the Spirit is to impart life, to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ, to guide us into all truth, to teach us all things, to comfort the believer, and to convict the world of sin.
dwight l. moody— P. 318. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The weakest believer is a member of Christ as well as the strongest; and the weakest member of the body mystically shall not perish. Christ will cut off rotten members, but not weak members.
richard watson— P. 105. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.
— Coleman Cox, in Listen to this (1922).
— Unsourced variant: The harder I work, the luckier I get.
— Sometimes mistakenly attributed to Thomas Jefferson, Stephen Leacock, or Samuel Goldwyn.
I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.
bill gates— "Bill Gates backs immigration reform on Mexico trip" Reuters (21 March 2007)
Name me an ethical statement made or an action performed by a believer that could not have been made or performed by a non-believer.
christopher hitchens— "Excerpt from 'The Portable Atheist'", USA Today, 1 November 2007, ISSN 0161-7389
Faith has its price. When misfortune strikes the true believer, he assumes he has done something to deserve punishment, but isn’t quite certain what. The realist, recognizing that he lives in a Darwinian universe, is simply grateful to have made it to another sunset.
jack mcdevitt— Chapter 10 (p. 165)
I have never dreamt of contesting the Church her right to remain faithful to herself, meaning to the commandments that come from Doctrine... but that she expects to impose these commandments upon me who do not have the good fortune of being a believer, trying to pour them into civil law in a way that they become obligatory even to us non-believers, is it right? To me it doesn't seem so.
indro montanelli— cited in Umberto Veronesi, Non vince la scienza, la Repubblica, 14 novembre 2008
By his good character, a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.
— Abu Dawood, Hadith 2233
What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics requires a form of discourse that is reasonable and accessible to believer and non-believer alike. This religious restraint in politics is critical to the maintenance of liberal democracy.
Andrew Sullivan— "Of Modern Faith," The Daily Dish (2008-12-14)
I'm a huge believer in evolution (not in the sense that "it happened" – anybody who doesn't believe that is either uninformed or crazy, but in the sense "the processes of evolution are really fundamental, and should probably be at least thought about in pretty much any context").
linus torvalds— LKML, September 28, 2006 [3]
A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves . The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy , malice , pettiness and dishonesty . There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self.
Eric Hoffer— Eric Hoffer, in The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955), Section 68
Marty presents himself as a true believer. He still believes in the faith, but he's trying to reform it. He sees himself as a Martin Luther figure.
— Janet Reitman, author of Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion, cited in (Adams 2012).
The prayer is the standard of Islam. Whosoever loves prayers, and observes their limits, timings and methods, is a true believer.
— Kanzul `Ummal, Volume 7, Tradition 18870
"The good deeds of one who, without any appropriate excuse does not offer his prayer until its time passes away, are annulled." He then said: "The divide between a believer and disbelief is the abandonment of prayers."
— Biharul Anwar, Volume 82, Page 202 (Shi'ite Hadith)
The Jews started it all and by "it" I mean so many of the things we care about, the underlying values that make all of us, Jew and Gentile, believer and atheist, tick. Without the Jews, we would see the world through different eyes, hear with different ears, even feel with different feelings … we would think with a different mind, interpret all our experience differently, draw different conclusions from the things that befall us. And we would set a different course for our lives.
— Thomas Cahill, in The Gifts of the Jews : How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (1998).
A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven" had been put out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in material power murmuring as he went homeward, "it will all blow over now." Yes. The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.
— George W. Russell, The Economics of Ireland, p. 23.
A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven" had been put out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in material power murmuring as he went homeward, "it will all blow over now." Yes. The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown over the world , and shall blow for centuries yet.
— Æ, in The Economics of Ireland and the Policy of the British Government (1921), p. 23
As the Church is the aggregate of believers , there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.
— Charles Hodge, in The Reformed Presbyterian magazine. Jan. 1855-July 1858, 1862-76 (1855), p.47
