Believer Quotes - Page 36

• For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Discovery, Years, Belief

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• I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Writing, Together, Gathering

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• See, I'm a believer that people are born with a sense of cooking. It's something within them that really gives them the ability to create and to understand flavors.

  Roy Yamaguchi

  People, Giving, Cooking

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• I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that for me the meaning of life is centered in our Redemption by Christ and what I see in the world I see in relation to that.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Christian, Spiritual, Mean

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.32, Macmillan

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• You see, I'm a believer in the rhapsodic. I like things that are happy. For no particular reason, I just like them. Most people don't seem to be like that in this particular place, in this world. You can tell by what they focus on. Read a newspaper, watch a TV show, go to a movie, look at a life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Tv Shows

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• If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Average, Devil

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• Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . "Not I, but Christ."

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Winning, Self

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• For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.

  Criss Jami

  Honesty, Humility, Pride

  Criss Jami (2011). “Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile”, p.82, Criss Jami

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• Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is.

  Donald Miller

  Morning, Sunday, Church Service

  "Born-again rebel Don Miller reveals 'best sermon I ever heard'" by John Blake, www.cnn.com.

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• I'm a firm believer in people who love what they do.

  Anthony Mackie

  People, Firm

  "Anthony Mackie Interview THE HURT LOCKER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 23, 2009.

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• But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.

  Jack Markell

  Government, Ideas, Doe

  "POLITICO interview: Gov. Jack Markell". Interview with Michael Falcone, www.politico.com. October 29, 2009.

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• A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Believe, Conservative

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• The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer’s passivity.

  Watchman Nee

  Omission, Evil, Giving

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.867, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.

  John Ralston Saul

  Doubt, Doe, Ridiculous

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a believer, I am believer that we shape and create the life that we choose, and I believe that the tool that we have to do that, is our mind.

  Kai Greene

  Believe, Mind, Tools

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• I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.

  Lars von Trier

  Christian, Men, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It also happens to me that when I meet a clericalist, I suddenly become anti-clerical. Clericalism should not have anything to do with Christianity. St. Paul, who was the first to speak to the Gentiles, the pagans, to believers in other religions, was the first to teach us that.

  Pope Francis

  Firsts, Speak, Pagan

  "The Pope: how the Church will change". Interview with Eugenio Scalfari, www.repubblica.it. October 1, 2013.

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• I think a girl always needs a cardigan, and I tend to go for the sparkles. I have a minimum of 50 embellished cardigans. I'm not a believer in less is more; I'm sort of a believer in more is necessary.

  L'Wren Scott

  Girl, Thinking, Needs

  "My List: L'Wren Scott", www.harpersbazaar.com. May 17, 2013.

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• Coincidence is the science of the true believer.

  Chet Raymo

  Coincidence, True Believer

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• I don't believe in, and I am a devout non-believer, in playing new songs live if the subjected and pathetic crowd has not heard them before because I consider it like mass psychosis and genocidal.

  Peter Steele

  Song, Believe, Psychosis

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• I'm a firm believer in anxiety and the power of negative thinking.

  Gertrude Berg

  Thinking, Anxiety, Negative

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• I'm a big believer in human nature.

  Robert Agostinelli

  Human Nature, Bigs, Humans

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• I'm a believer in paying your dues.

  Dana Fox

  Dues

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• I do think that I'm a big believer in having an idea or having ideas and just tucking them away in the back of your brain. Even if you aren't consciously thinking of them, I think they simmer. You're working on them, even if you don't know you're working on them, and I think having something in your head for a while is a valuable thing.

  Rian Johnson

  Thinking, Ideas, Brain

  "Rian Johnson on his writing process and the appeal of alternate-history films". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 27, 2012.

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• I'm a believer that the more I'm giving, the happier I am, and the more beautiful my exterior will be.

  Janelle Monae

  Beautiful, Giving, Exterior

  "Janelle Monáe on Her Diet, Hair and Beauty Swagger". www.glamour.com. February 11, 2013.

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