Believer Quotes - Page 35

• I was born a Catholic and now I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm something but I'm not a believer any more.

  Paul Bettany

  Catholic, Born

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• I'm a believer in 'Ignorance is bliss.'

  Julianna Margulies

  Ignorance, Bliss, Ignorance Is Bliss

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• I love my jeans and my sweats-I’m really just a tomboy at heart. So it’s really hard for me to be like Kim Kardashian and be makeup-and hair-ready every time I go out of my house. I’m not a believer in that, you know? On the other hand, when you do wear those sweats, you’re like, Oh God, I should step it up a notch.

  Britney Spears

  Heart, Makeup, Hair

  "Britney Spears: The Brit Factor". www.elle.com. September 5, 2012.

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• I think the more you have a generalist perspective, I think sometimes the more you can kind of see through the forest and the trees. And when it gets a little bit cloudy, you know, have some sense of, "Well, maybe this might happen or maybe that might happen." So I really am a big believer in liberal arts education. I think it's better - particularly in these kind of uncertain times - to know a little bit about a lot of things as opposed to being expert in one thing.

  Steve Case

  Education, Art, Thinking

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• Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths on offer, every believer should expect damnation purely as a matter of probability.

  Bertrand Russell

  Numbers, Religion, World

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• True believers aren't about to be seduced by the facts.

  Gary Sloan

  Religion, Atheism, Facts

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• Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Women, Rights, Expression

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.41, Vintage

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• Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Two, Justice, Causes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

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• The unbeliever imagines that religion pretends to offer answers, while the believer knows that the only promise it makes is to multiply questions.

  Nicolas Gomez Davila

  Promise, Religion, Answers

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• According to Scripture, the invisible church includes everyone who has ever been genuinely born again for every age of church history. This church will not meet in a visible way until Christ returns. The visible church consists of believers who are alive and meeting together right now.

  Wayne Mack

  Age, Church, Together

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• As a brand marketer, I'm a big believer in 'branding the customer experience,' not just selling the service.

  John Sculley

  Selling, Branding, Bigs

  "Former Apple CEO John Sculley on the consumer revolution in healthcare". Interview with Halle Tecco, venturebeat.com. July 31, 2013.

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• Theurgy is ritual magic - but magic that enacts the will of God, not of the magician.  It brings divine energies down to earth, elevating and spiritualizing the world of matter, including the very being and substance of the participants.  Each time the believer takes part with attention and devotion, he or she becomes more attuned to God.

  Richard Smoley

  Magic, Energy, Attention

  Richard Smoley, Jay Kinney (2012). “Hidden Wisdom: A Guide to the Western Inner Traditions”, p.53, Quest Books

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• I have always been a huge believer in the inestimable value good mentoring can contribute to any nascent business

  Richard Branson

  Good Man, Mentoring, Huge

  Sir Richard Branson (2014). “The Virgin Way: How to Listen, Learn, Laugh and Lead”, p.160, Random House

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• Open theists affirm the same openness of the future that religious believers assume when they pray and almost all humans assume when they act. The open future is intuitive; but can it be rigorously defended? God in an Open Universe shows that it can. Open theism has always been an attractive view of God; now it becomes a philosophically rigorous one as well.

  Philip Clayton

  Religious, Views, Assuming

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• Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books.... To be in a library is one of the purest of all experiences. This awareness of library's unique, even sacred nature, is what should be instilled in our neophites.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Book, Humble, Unique

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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• Your sweet spot is in between the true believers and the scoffing skeptics.

  Rob Brezsny

  Change, Sweet, Scoffing

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.9, Frog Books

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• One of the exciting things about being a believer is watching God unveil His plan for our lives.

  Andy Stanley

  God, Christian, Religious

  Andy Stanley (2012). “Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision”, p.41, Multnomah

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• As believers in Christ, we are part of Him-God the Father decided before the foundation of the world that anyone who loved Christ would be loved and accepted by Him.

  Joyce Meyer

  Love, Christian, Father

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• A beam of God's countenance is enough to fill the heart of a believer to overflowing. It is enough to light up the pale cheek of a dying saint with seraphic brightness, and make the heart of the lone widow sing for joy.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Christian, Heart, Light

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1848). “Sermons”, p.116

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• Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Fighting, Grace

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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• Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own accord, it is assumed: 1) that frustration of itself, without any proselytizing prompting from the outside, can generate most of the peculiar characteristics of the true believer; 2) that an effective technique of conversion consists basically in the inculcation and fixation of proclivities and responses indigenous to the frustrated mind.

  Eric Hoffer

  Frustration, Frustrated, Mind

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to believe as a Jew, a Protestant, or non-believer, or as anything else you choose. We know that the price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that they might some day force theirs on us. This freedom is the fundamental strength of our unique experiment in government. In the complex interplay of forces and considerations that go into the making of our laws and policies, its preservation must be a pervasive and dominant concern.

  Mario

  Believe, Unique, Law

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• A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.

  Alan Hirsch

  Life, God, Christian

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• When the church is in mission, it is the true church. The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible. The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus. To obstruct this is to block God's purposes in and through his people.

  Alan Hirsch

  Jesus, Block, Mean

  Alan Hirsch (2016). “The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating Apostolic Movements”, p.100, Brazos Press

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• When the church encounters hardship, persecution, and suffering, then it is closest to its crucified Lord. Then there are fewer hypocrites and nominal believers among its members, and then the faith of Christians burns most intensely.

  Gene Veith

  Christian, Hypocrite, Suffering

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