Believer Quotes - Page 14

• I'm a big believer in going on offense, and I think Hillary Clinton is the ideal target on whom to go on offense.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Target, Goes On

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists.

  Amos Oz

  Compromise, Young, Idealist

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I'm a great believer in compromises. I do not believe in capitulation.

  Amos Oz

  Believe, Compromise, Capitulation

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I don't know if anybody from my tribe of atheists ever thanked [Barack Obama] for giving us a shout-out at your first inaugural, but you did mention non-believers. We appreciate it. Because we do feel like untouchables to a degree.

  Bill Maher

  Atheist, Appreciate, Giving

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I try to live a faith-filled life. I'm a believer.

  George W. Bush

  Trying, Filled

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.

  Anne Lamott

  Dark, Light, Together

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• I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Real, Godly

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• The doubters said, "Man can not fly," The doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try," And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Morning, Men

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• The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Atheism, Belief

  Robert N. Goldman, Albert Einstein (1997). “Einstein's God: Albert Einstein's Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God”, Jason Aronson Incorporated

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• The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new creation", capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Inspire, Adults

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• I am a great believer in variations on the routine.

  Kaye Gibbons

  Routine, Variation

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• Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Religious, Atheist

  Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Most soulish believers assume an attitude of self-righteousness, though often it is scarcely detectable. They hold tenaciously to their minute opinions we ought to lay aside the small differences and pursue the common objective.

  Watchman Nee

  Attitude, Differences, Self

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.55, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• When a believer has crossed into the domain of the spiritual he daily ought to maintain a combat attitude in his spirit, praying therewith for the overthrow of all the works of Satan done through the evil powers.

  Watchman Nee

  Spiritual, Attitude, Prayer

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.420, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God's work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers.

  Watchman Nee

  Attitude, Fall, Pride

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.555, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a previous life I was Johann Sebastian Bach's guide dog.

  George Shearing

  Music, Dog, People

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• After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been educated, I settled down in the full persuasion, that the immersion of a professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism.

  Adoniram Judson

  Christian, Baptism, Trials

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• What is there to be said about a Church which certainly promises its believers eternal salvation, but at the same time condemns the non-believers, all those who think differently, to an eternal torment in hell? - If that Church absolutely must talk about love, then it should do so very quietly.

  Arnulf Øverland

  Atheist, Thinking, Promise

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• Although God believers don't need evolution to be false, atheists need evolution to be true.

  Ann Coulter

  Atheist, Needs, Evolution

  Ann Coulter (2006). “Godless: The Church of Liberalism”, p.199, Crown Forum

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• There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Atheist, Believe, Doubt

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• The annoying thing about being an atheist is that you'll never have the satifaction of saying to believers, 'I told you so.'

  Mark Steel

  Death, Atheist, Annoying

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• 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

  Jesus, Nazareth, Great Christian

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• Christ is our temple, in whom by faith all believers meet.

  Matthew Henry

  Christian, Jesus, Temples

  Matthew Henry, Leslie F. Church (1992). “The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition”, p.4278, Harper Collins

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• Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom, and fruitage in prayer.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Beautiful, Christian, Strong

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• Believers must persevere in prayer that they may see clearly their own pitiful state and understand the indwelling, working, and demands of the Holy Spirit.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Demand, May

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.314, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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