Believer Quotes - Page 21

• I'm a firm believer in shades of gray.

  Blake Ross

  Entrepreneur, Shade, Gray

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• I find it discouraging - and a bit depressing - when I notice the unequal treatment afforded by the media to UFO believers on the one hand, and on the other, to those who believe in an invisible supreme being who inhabits the sky.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  George Carlin (2004). “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, Hyperion

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• I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

  David Levithan

  Serendipity, Together, Purpose

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.25, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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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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• When we sing praises to our Lord, we join in the chorus that creation has been singing from the beginning of time. And it is the same anthem that we as believers will be singing for all eternity.

  Laura Story

  Singing, Anthem, Praise

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• In one important sense, Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Evil, Judging, Important

  Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy ch. 1 (1942)

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• Every believer is commanded to be plugged in to a local church.

  David Jeremiah

  Church, Local Church, Locals

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• Share the Gospel. According to the Bible, it is every believer's privilege and responsibility to share the Gospel. If we understand what lies ahead for those who do not know Christ, there will be a sense of urgency in our witness.

  David Jeremiah

  Lying, Responsibility, Privilege

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• I'm a New Testament Christian. I reject and throw out titles. I'm not a fundamentalist, though I'm fundamental in all of my doctrine. I'm not an evangelical, because that means that I exclude the Catholics and main-liners, and Orthodox. I'm a believer who loves Jesus and I work with everybody else whatever their denomination; Catholic, Orthodox, charismatic, main line, evangelicals, anyone who loves Jesus.

  Bill Bright

  Christian, Jesus, Mean

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• I was a great believer in hot buttered toast at all hours of the day.

  Frank O'Connor

  Hot, Hours, Toasts

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• N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in reform and peaceful coexistence, who incidentally emptied Stalin's concentration camps, dominated the international scene in the next few years. He was also perhaps the only peasant boy ever to rule a major state

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Boys, Years, Peaceful

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• If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give religious imperatives special weight, their problem is not that secularists are antidemocratic but that democracy is antiabsolutist.

  Ellen Willis

  Religious, Self, Giving

  "Freedom from Religion". The Nation, February 19, 2001.

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• I'm going to leave y'all with one thought. I'm a big believer in fate. I have a good feeling about this.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Fate, Feelings, Good Feeling

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• For authentic transformation is not a matter of belief but of the death of the believer; not a matter of translating the world but of transforming the world; not a matter of finding solace but of finding infinity on the other side of death. The self is not made content; the self is made toast.

  Ken Wilber

  Self, Sides, Infinity

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.27, Shambhala Publications

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• One is born with good taste. It's very hard to acquire. You can acquire the patina of taste. But what Elsie Mendl had was something else that's particularly American––an appreciation of vulgarity. Vulgarity is a very important ingredient in life. I'm a great believer in vulgarity––if it's got vitality. A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste––it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against.

  Diana Vreeland

  Appreciation, Nice, Thinking

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• In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.

  Cyril Connolly

  Together, Drink

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  While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.

  Barry Goldwater

  People, Stronger, Environment

  Barry Morris Goldwater (1970). “The conscience of a majority”, Prentice Hall

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• Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.

  Richard Rohr

  Atheist, Ignorance, Atheism

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• It would be an exaggeration to say I’m not afraid of death, but I’m not afraid of what comes after, because I’m not a believer.

  Christian de Duve

  Would Be, Not Afraid, Exaggeration

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• Since I invoke Torah so often, let me state that I don't personally believe in the God it postulates ... I am not religious, nor were the majority of the early builders of Israel believers. Yet their passion for this land stemmed from the Book of Books ... [The Bible is] the single most important book in my life.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Religious, Believe, Book

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• I’m a big believer in starting with high standards and raising them. We make progress only when we push ourselves to the highest level. If we don’t progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.

  Dan Gable

  Attitude, Progress, High Standards

  Gable, Dan (1998). “Coaching Wrestling Successfully”, p.15, Human Kinetics

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• If the believers in liberty wish the principles of liberty taught, let them never intrust that instruction to any government; for the nature of government is to become a thing apart, an institution existing for its own sake, preying upon the people, and teaching whatever will tend to keep it secure in its seat.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Teaching, Government, People

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.96, SUNY Press

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• For generations, the body of Christ has been defeated and put under a constant siege of condemnation from the accuser because they believe wrongly that the Holy Spirit convicts believers of their sins.

  Joseph Prince

  Believe, Siege, Body Of Christ

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• The challenge of the believer is to take the faith that you got in here and take it to the place out there.

  T. D. Jakes

  Challenges

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• All over this nation, all over this world there are people going to church today and they say they are believers, but until you can take what you've been taught and bring it to the place you gave up - you will never be the radical believer that you need to be for the times in which we live.

  T. D. Jakes

  Church Today, People, Going To Church

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