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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.
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
The believer will fight another believer over a shade of difference: the doubter fights only with himself.
graham greene— 1982 Monsignor Quixote, pt.1, ch.4.
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)
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))
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.
Be a believer / Believe everything / You'll be right half the time
blake schwarzenbach— "Chinatown" (Orange Rhyming Dictionary (1998))
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))
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))
As a believer is changed, receiving a glorified body, so similarly, the earth is changed into a new earth, unstained by sin.
paul enns— p. 97 (Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011))
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)
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
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’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.
There is presumably a calendar date a moment when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the noes had it.
tom stoppard— George, Act I
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)
All life is surrounded by a great circumference of death; but to the believer in Jesus, beyond this surrounding death is a boundless sphere of life. He has only to die once to be done with death forever.
— James Hamilton, p. 177. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
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
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
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]
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.
— Muhammad, Fiqh-us-Sunnah, Volume 4, Number 1.
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.
