Believer Quotes - Page 37

• The passing of Marxism-Leninism first from China and then from the Soviet Union will mean its death as a living ideology ... . For while there may be some isolated true believers left in places like Managua, Pyongyang, or Cambridge, MA.

  Francis Fukuyama

  Mean, Unions, May

  Francis Fukuyama, United States Institute of Peace (1990). “A Look at "The end of history?"”, United States Inst of Peace Pr

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• The downside of skepticism: it can easily turn into an arrogant position of a priori rejection of any new phenomenon or idea, a position that is as lacking in critical thinking as the one of the true believer, and that simply does not help either science or the public at large.

  Massimo Pigliucci

  Thinking, Ideas, Rejection

  Massimo Pigliucci (2010). “Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk”, p.75, University of Chicago Press

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• For the believer in divine creation, the open question of the Mystery of Being is like an open wound. It stings and gapes, and the believer cannot rest till it be healed up, closed up, smeared with the soothing balm of an answer, even if his doctrine be a sophisticated one like Aquinas's or that of the latest Liberal Protestant theologian.

  Robert M. Price

  Doctrine, Answers, Mystery

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• Here's our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!

  Bob Goff

  Jobs

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• Doing begets more doing. It sounds simple, but I’m a firm believer that action can solve so many worries, and just powering through, no matter what, can give you the confidence you need when you feel like you’ve got nothing to offer.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Simple, Giving, Worry

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• I am a firm believer that you don't achieve greatness on your own. There is always someone there to lend a hand

  Greg Louganis

  Greatness, Hands, Achieve

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• Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Bird, Singing

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Salt Cellars”, p.97, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The impact of the holocaust on believers as well as unbelievers, on Jews as well as Christians, has not yet been evaluated. Not deeply, not enough.

  Elie Wiesel

  Christian, Impact, Holocaust

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.5, Schocken

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• A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Mind, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.111, Harvard University Press

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• In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Religion, Balance, Church

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.92, BookBaby

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• Believers are each other's mirrors.

  Elif Safak

  Mirrors

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• I have long been an ardent believer in the science of Homeopathy and I feel happy that it has got now a greater hold in India than even in the land of its origin. It is not merely a collection of a few medicines but a real science with a rational philosophy at its base. We require more scientific interest and inquiry into the matter with special stress upon the Indian environment

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Stress, Philosophy, Real

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• Patience, then, believer, eternity will right the wrongs of time.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Eternity

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.562, Discovery House

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• Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

  Eric Hoffer

  Children, Savages, Remember

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

  Gore Vidal

  Politician, Improvisation, Prize

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.

  Robert Breault

  God, Shrines, Pilgrim

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• When a man really believes that it is necessary to do a certain thing to be happy forever, or that a certain belief is necessary to ensure eternal joy, there is in that man no spirit of concession. He divides the whole world into saints and sinners, into believers and unbelievers, into God's sheep and Devil's goats, into people who will be glorified and people who are damned.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Sheep

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.444, Library of Alexandria

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• I'm a believer of destiny and I believe I'm destiny's child. I've seen the highs and I've seen the lows and I believe things happen for a reason and always for the best.

  Shilpa Shetty

  Children, Believe, Destiny

  "Life In A... Metro - Shilpa Shetty interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk. May 7, 2007.

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• In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning.

  Andy Rooney

  Learning, Errors, Trial And Error

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.146, PublicAffairs

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• Death is robbed of much of its terror for the true believer.

  Billy Graham

  Death, Terror, True Believer

  Billy Graham (2009). “Graham 2in1 (Angels/Peace With God)”, p.84, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

  Charles Kennedy

  Lifelong, Trade, Unionism

  "Charles Kennedy's speech to the TUC". www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2002.

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• I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.

  Jeannette Walls

  Luck, Bigs, Harder

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• I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something. A believer is someone who senses a consciousness or a direction and believes in it. The one who searches for meaning has not found the direction yet.

  Aharon Appelfeld

  Believe, Men, Different

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• The man of Love follows the path of God-and shows affection to both the believer and the nonbe-liever.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Path, Affection

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• As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers - and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.

  Alain de Botton

  Atheist, Thinking, Trying

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