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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
I am a firm believer in living as if there were no such thing as a secret. If we hide our sins and live in darkness, we will never get the healing we so desperately need; in fact, if it is hidden so well that we don't even recognize it, we may never even find forgiveness.
ted haggard— Haggard, Ted (September 2002). Simple Prayers for a Powerful Life. Regal Books. pp. p. 110. ISBN 0830730559.
I am a great believer rather than the popular scientific way of dealing with things that 'Nothing exists unless you can prove it'. I am pretty much the other way that pretty much anything can exist unless you can disprove it.
anthony stewart head— Antony Head Talks To Scifind.co.uk
The human mind invents its Puss-in-Boots and its coaches that change into pumpkins at midnight because neither the believer nor the atheist is completely satisfied with appearances.
andré malraux— Antimémoires, preface (1967)
I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is more difficult silently to obey our own interior promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperaments and our gifts — if we have any. I do not say "neither God, nor Master," only in the end to substitute myself for the God I have excommunicated..."
georges rouault— Rouault, Georges. "Climat pictural." La Renaissance. XX, no. 10-12. (1937)
— Variant translation: Anybody can rebel. But to obey in silence, an inner calling to search lifelong without impatience for the means of expression adequate to us... that is much more difficult.
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 william russell— The Economics of Ireland and the Policy of the British Government (1921)
"I am a big believer of what Darwin discovered in the Galapagos, proving that the species most responsive to change will survive over apparently stronger or more intelligent competitors."
john elkann— "Letter to shareholders", Exor, April 2011
Upon death the believer goes immediately into the presence of Christ in heaven, a realm far better than this earth…Heaven is our true home.
paul enns— p. 23 (Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011))
Existence continues at death for the believer in a fuller, more fulfilling way. Death should hold no fear for the believer.
paul enns— p. 35 (Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011))
I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.
— H.G. Wells, British author (1866–1946) (from: [21]).
Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
Franz Kafka— 75
In yet another aspect he is the last of the great system-builders, the successor of Hegel , a believer, like him, in a rational formula summing up the evolution of mankind.
karl marx— Bertrand Russell, in A History of Western Philosophy (1945), Ch. XXVII, p.782
The act of the soul, in surrendering itself into the hands of Christ, forms a connecting bond between Him as the Vine and the soul as the branches, which communicates life, strength, nourishment, and beauty. In a word, with a just view of the character, and a supreme attachment to the person of Christ, the believer yields himself into His hands as a full and complete Saviour. Him he receives; upon Him he rests, and rests for time and eternity.
gardiner spring— P. 226. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Sensible of his ill-desert and helplessness, persuaded of the all-sufficiency of the Redeemer, the believer therefore makes a voluntary surrender of himself into the hands of Christ, to be saved upon His own terms. He relinquishes his vain confidences, and places all his hopes on Christ. He casts himself into His arms. " Lord, to whom shall I go but to Thee?"
gardiner spring— P. 231. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
I’m a firm believer that in-depth subjects can be better handled in a fantasy setting. ... Let’s face it, traveling to some far off land is a terrific way to break the mold, to do something different. Isn’t that why we go on vacations?
jim starlin— Undated comment at his official site.
Snake handling is based on a passage in the Bible that says a sign of a true believer is the power to "take up serpents" without being harmed.
— In "Woman fatally bitten by snake in church". USA Today. 11 August 2006. Retrieved on 2 January 2014.
The believer is no burden to his God, and even if you should be carrying whole mountains of care and solicitude, they will not make you more burdensome or your case more difficult to the Creator of the ends of the earth. He fainteth not, neither is weary.
— P. 596. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
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
The example of a believer is like a fresh tender plant; from whichever direction the wind blows, it bends the plant. But when the wind dies down, (it) straightens up again.
— Fiqh-us-Sunnah, Volume 4, Number 1
A believer is as the two pans of a scale, that whenever his faith increases his afflictions increase.
— Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p.432
Two years ago I went to Iraq as an unabashed believer in toppling Saddam Hussein. I knew his regime well from previous visits; WMDs or no, ridding the world of Saddam would surely be for the best, and America's good intentions would carry the day. What went wrong?
— Rod Nordland/Newsweek, June 2005 [20]
