True Believer Quotes - Page 6

• I'm a true believer in working hard and partying hard. I'm fortunate to be one of those people who can have just as much fun partying without alcohol.

  Richard Branson

  Fun, Party, People

  "Living Fully and Doing Business Differently With Richard Branson". Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2009.

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• It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.

  Ashoka

  Giving, Worthy, Forbidden

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• Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers.

  Sarah Vowell

  Cities, Lakes, Vegas

  Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.

  Philip Caputo

  Way, Being True, Believer

  Philip Caputo (2005). “Acts of Faith”, p.146, Vintage

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• The anorexic is the fuse nakedly exposed to the direct power of modern media, a psyche whose wiring has no insulation. The anorexic is an analog to the ideologue, who is likewise devoid of common sense, independent ego, culture, intuitive intelligence, etc.: all the ideologue has to orient himself by is the formalist or abstractivist directives inlaid in modern mass-culture. Both are forms of the True Believer, minds in whom factors of self-active life are reduced to negligibility and pathos reigns.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Independent, Self

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• We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood…We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We ask God to offer him mercy with the true believers and the martyrs.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Warrior, Blood, Oppression

  "Mixed reaction in Mid East". Interview with Anne Barker, www.abc.net.au. May 3, 2011.

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• When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.

  Bob Woodward

  Distance, Practice, Long

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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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• Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.

  Natan Sharansky

  Army, Thinking, People

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• When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.

  Jim Bakker

  Heaven, Matter, Faith In God

  "The Best of Interviews With Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Messner". “CNN Larry King Weekend”, www.cnn.com. June 24, 2001.

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• A true believer does not fear physical death, rather he fears the death of his heart

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Heart, Doe, Believer

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• Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Winning, Soul

  Charles Spurgeon (1989). “The Soul Winner”, p.15, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Writing a book about [Buckminster Fuller] in the sense of deciding how much to - how much biographically to gloss over and how much I can leave out is relatively easy as it is because the true believers already know everything. They know a lot of things that are not true and they know a lot of things that I thought were (and seems there's very good evidence not to believe) and therefore, my starting point was I think to tell his myth because that's what grabbed me.

  Jonathon Keats

  Book, Believe, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• Even when you expose something, when you have a true believer, that person rejects that proof; he thinks it's just a set-up. We believe what's more convenient for us to believe. We always behave this way. We start with the conclusion, and then we create a body of theories around it. We choose what allows us not to change.

  Rodrigo Cortes

  Believe, Thinking, Conclusion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.

  George Whitefield

  Prayer, Believer

  George Whitefield (1828). “Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith”, p.485

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• I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.

  John Owen

  Men, Sorrow, Sin

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• Every believer is an anarchist at heart. True believers would rather see governments topple and history rewritten than scuff the cover of their faith.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Faith, Heart, Government

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• there are the non-believers, make believers and true believers!

  Sister Souljah

  Non Believer, Believer

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• Here the only genuine conflict is between true believers. Of a given text in Holy Writ one faction may say this thing and another that, but both agree unreservedly that the text itself is impeccable, and neither in the midst of the most violent disputation would venture to accuse the other of doubt. To call a man a doubter in these parts is equal to accusing him of cannibalism. Even the infidel Scopes himself is not charged with any such infamy.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Doubt, Atheism

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• Jesus taught that the mark of the Christian is the observable love shown among all true believers.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Jesus, Taught

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• I still believe in public radio's potential. Because it's the one mass medium that's still crafted almost entirely by true believers.

  Sarah Vowell

  Believe, Radio, Mass

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• 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

  Grateful, Sunset, Punishment

  "Deepsix". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2000.

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• Pressed for rules and verities, All i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer. Think-too-long is never-act. Scratch a myth and find a fact.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Women, Thinking, Long

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• Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity means believing absolutely in something with a huge amount of proof to the contrary. We are the true believers.

  Joss Whedon

  Believe, Mean, Humanity

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