Believer Quotes - Page 2

• The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Religious, Atheist

  George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

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• There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method.

  Max Born

  Believe, Two, Scientific Method

  1951 Natural Philosophy of Cause and Chance.

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• It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order.

  Asa Gray

  Christian, Attitude, Men

  Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion”

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• Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Church, Firsts

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• Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Christian, Religious, Atheist

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• But the Jews will also be believers, so you can say that all the saints, both gentiles and Jews, will go into the millennial kingdom and populate the earth.

  Tim LaHaye

  Saint, Millennials, Earth

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• No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Atheist, Law, Atheism

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• To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Religious, Squares, Engagement

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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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• Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.

  Arianna Huffington

  Hatred, Promise, Quality

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• Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.

  Armstrong Williams

  Religious, Rights, Hands

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• The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual.

  Charles Hodge

  Organization, Church, Earth

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.4

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• So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

  Walter Bagehot

  Fear, Long, Judgement

  Walter Bagehot (1986). “The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: Miscellany”

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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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• Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Skeptic, Bits

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• If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Strong, First Love, Kissing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a big believer in spontaneity.

  Les Claypool

  Spontaneity, Bigs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.

  Mack McLarty

  Strong, Bipartisanship

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• I'm a big believer in education, period.

  Jon Secada

  Education, Bigs, Periods

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• I am a big believer in early intervention.

  Temple Grandin

  Bigs, Intervention

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.

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• I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, People, Theory

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• I've never been a big believer in formal education.

  Megan Fox

  Funny, Bigs, Formal

  Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. May 13, 2008.

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• The harder I work the more I live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Good Luck, True Joy

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• A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

  Aldous Huxley

  Freedom, Food, Optimistic

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great believer in blood.

  Joss Whedon

  Blood, Found

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