Top 100 Quotes About Believers
#1. The Left masks its distaste for the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality in a straw man argument that Bible believers are violent bigots. They are not. Citing the Bible doesn't make you a bigot against human beings - it makes you a bigot against sin, which is a good thing.
Ben Shapiro
#2. Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Anatole France
#3. Believers in the doctrines of modern Christendom will reap damnation to their souls.
Bruce R. McConkie
#4. People in religions that teach that believers in other faiths are condemned, for example, tend to have lower life satisfaction. People who believe in heaven and hell tend to be less happy than those believe only in heaven.
Gretchen Rubin
#5. Believing is easier than thinking; that's why there will always be more believers than thinkers. However, the results of god-belief are often far more mental trials than those of nonbelief. It is quite difficult to ascertain the wishes of an invisible being.
Mark Thomas
#6. When the church encounters hardship, persecution, and suffering, then it is closest to its crucified Lord. Then there are fewer hypocrites and nominal believers among its members, and then the faith of Christians burns most intensely.
Gene Veith
#7. We need to EARN the right to be leaders. It is to our peril when we are given things for which we are not qualified. For Believers, we must only engage in activities for which the Lord has called us.
Chris Alexander
#8. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.
Eric Hoffer
#9. All believers are called to be holy in mind, body, and spirit (1 Peter 1:15).
Billy Graham
#10. Our focus should always be to lead in such a way that other Christians, as well as non-believers, will see Christ in us.
Linda Clark
#11. Religion is an idea, and, as an idea, it should be eligible for criticism, discussion, and yes, mockery. The only reason so many believers demand special exceptions be made for religious ideas is because they know full well that their ideas don't hold up well under scrutiny.
Amanda Marcotte
#12. Those who are believers in God find strength from their faith in the face of suffering. They are compelled to give sacrificially to help those in need. And they have the hope that comes from knowing that, with God by their side, the tragedy they are facing is never the final word.
Adam Hamilton
#13. 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
#14. I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted.
Tariq Ali
#15. While many believers walk around with a guilty conscience and feel disqualified to receive God's promises, we are able to enter a level of freedom that assures us we are qualified at any moment to boldly enter His presence, to shine with His glory, and to do great exploits for His kingdom.
Katherine Ruonala
#16. The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the people, and to this end the Holy Ghost endued them with knowledge of all tongues.
John Wycliffe
#17. Knowing what we believe and why we believe it is not an option for the Christian, because as believers, OUR BELIEFS ARE THE VERY HEART OF WHO WE ARE.
Patty Houser
#18. The beauty of Christ and his gospel continues to captivate millions of believers all over the world and drive them to passionate worship while it simultaneously disgusts, angers, or bores millions of others.
Jared C. Wilson
#19. Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic, and really men of no account. The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#20. People from all over the world were killed in the attacks on the World Trade Centre. They came from many different cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds. Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu believers were killed together as they worked in the towers.
David Blunkett
#21. Santa exists in the hearts of all true believers.
J.D. Robb
#22. The promises of God for tomorrow are the anchor for believers today.
R.C. Sproul
#23. As believers we have no need to fear death. Christ himself assures us of a safe arrival home in heaven!
Paul P. Enns
#24. The naysayers are not only casting doubt on science and nonbelievers; they are also ignoring the billions of non-conflicted believers around the world, dismissing their views as unworthy.
Bill Nye
#25. My fellow believers, it is time to return to the Book. It is time to look to the one source that holds the answers for how our country should operate, the Bible.
Tony Evans
#26. Worship is of fundamental significance to the life of the individual and to the corporate life of the church, yet we rarely hear it taught as a discipline or practice in the gathering of believers.
Carl Tuttle
#27. God wants believers to take an interest in the well-being of the society in which they live.
Max Anders
#28. In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.
Nancy Pearcey
#29. The finest peculiarity of belief is that believers do not recognize themselves as believers.
Adam Leith Gollner
#30. DEVIL Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers. WM-ST-62
Kahlil Gibran
#31. While all this goes on, the English remain staunch believers in equality. Equality is a notion the English have given to humanity. Equality means that you are just as good as the next man but the next man is not half as good as you are.
George Mikes
#32. Renewal is brought by the Holy Spirit. Believers will learn what it means to minister to one another and build each other up. No longer will our lives seem ordinary and indistinguishable from the rest of the world.
Billy Graham
#33. The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. This is my faith; this is my joy.
Pope Benedict XVI
#34. Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness - there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire, when the saying should have been, Where there's scandalous lies there's always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.
Orson Scott Card
#35. We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the basis of the constitution written at our nation's founding - null and void.
Cal Thomas
#37. Unless God and His revealed Word is the overarching influencer and rationale over how our electoral decisions are made as believers, then we cannot expect God to be the overarching influencer in our nation.
Tony Evans
#38. 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
#39. The incomparable great power we have as believers is tied up in hope. Lose the hope and lose the power.
Ted Dekker
#40. They belonged to the long and honorable human tradition that had spawned the Luddites, the flat-earthers, various bible-thumping faithies, the scientographers, and the back-earthies, not to mention all the other forms of the true believers that had parasitized human society over the millennia.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#41. In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers.
Pat Robertson
#42. Many believers' entire lives are reduced to nothing more than a sin management program, running the endless treadmill of trying to please God by doing more for Him or trying to sin less.
Paul Silway
#43. The revelation of God's grace contained in Romans delivers believers from a performance mentality - which bases relationship with God on our own efforts - to a total trust and reliance upon the Lord, His goodness, and grace.
Andrew Wommack
#44. Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon
that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages
have been believers in Jesus Christ; and the great Cond?, when dying, repeated these noble words, "Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!".
Luc De Clapiers
#45. If believers worship with gladness and passion, anyone not yet a part of the community certainly will be attracted to the One who is the object of their worship.
Marva Dawn
#46. As believers, everything we do is based on how we view God.
Hayley DiMarco
#47. Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.
George Whitefield
#48. Among the believers who show most perfect faith are those who have best disposition and are kindest to their families.
Muhammad Ibn Isa At-Tirmidhi
#49. In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.
Salvatore J. Cordileone
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this cognitive dissonance.
Mark Thomas
#53. The verb 'highly favored' (Luke 1:28) is the same as 'made us accepted' in Ephesians 1:6, referring to all of God's children. All true believers have been 'highly graced' by the Lord.
Charles Spurgeon
#54. Nothing can be more violent and merciless than a group of true believers, no matter what they choose to believe.
Dee Hock
#55. Our worship as believers cannot be accepted we honor others
Sunday Adelaja
#56. Having friends around for a pleasant evening is one of life's most cherished joys as far as I am concerned. But when those with me are fellow believers, how much greater that joy is, for we know that it's rekindled, one day in eternity.
James Stewart
#57. God works on earth only through the prayers of believers and based on this basis, the destiny of this world is not in the hands of earthly kings and rulers but in the hands of prayer warriors.
Sunday Adelaja
#58. One of the characteristics of sects is that they judge all other believers to be lost. What they claim, in effect is, "Unless you agree with me on all issues that I define as essential, you cannot be saved.
Flavil R. Yeakley Jr.
#59. It sounds to me, young one," Haddek said, "that you are searching for something that cannot be found."
"The truth?" Sazed said.
"No," Haddek replied. "A religion that requires no faith of its believers.
Brandon Sanderson
#60. Our true believers passed on, or stopped believing, and we were left, lost and scared and dispossessed, to get by on what little smidgens of worship or belief we could find.
Neil Gaiman
#61. Pope Pius XI called for a world-wide day of prayer, to be held on 16 March 1930, on behalf of the persecuted believers in Russia. This action led Stalin to suspend temporarily the antireligious campaign, according to Roy Medvedev
Lynne Viola
#62. When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.
Nancy Pearcey
#63. The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God were heard.
John Calvin
#64. It's too risky," said doubters.
"It's too difficult," said scoffers.
"It's pointless," said mockers.
"It's impossible," said haters.
"It's already done," said believers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#65. As disciples of Jesus Christ we have a responsibility to work together with like-minded believers, to raise our voices for what is right.
Robert D. Hales
#66. 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
#67. It's not magic; it's hard work by vested people who share a vision for God's kingdom in their city. An influential church is nothing more than a bunch of believers who get in the game and live on mission.
Jen Hatmaker
#68. I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I'm inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.
Conor McGregor
#69. Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and the thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don't see it yourself.
Edmund S. Lee
#70. A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.
Jeff Bridges
#71. Our problem in America is not with atheists or the pagans who are consistent with their unbelief, but with believers who are inconsistent with their belief.
Randall Terry
#72. Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in life, in love, in faith, and in purity ... Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress.
Karen Kingsbury
#73. Gospel of the Kingdom has not been fully expanded upon to this generation of believers.
Sunday Adelaja
#74. Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
Agnes Repplier
#75. We are firm believers of the paranormal, but we believe over 80 percent of all claims can be disproved.
Jason Hawes
#77. We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood ... We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We ask God to offer him mercy with the true believers and the martyrs.
Ismail Haniyeh
#78. God has given believers the responsibility of spreading the Gospel to all the world, and we need to use all at our disposal to accomplish this task.
Theodore Epp
#79. Every believer may not be called to preach, but every Christian is called to pray. Prayer is our duty. Prayer is our privilege. Prayer, like air, water and food, is necessary for our survival and growth. But many believers regard prayer as an optional activity.
Larry Lea
#80. Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game.
Matt Taibbi
#81. If you do not have the power to compete with the best believers in good deeds, then compete with the sinners in asking for Allah's forgiveness.
Ibn Rajab
#82. The imaginations of believers have dressed up and exaggerated the excellence of the style and matter of the New Testament generally, in the same manner, in which they have the moral instructions of Jesus.
Lysander Spooner
#83. When the Son of God chose to submit to this trial in his own person, he became an example to all believers, so that they may carefully avoid falling into Satan's snares by a wrong use of Scripture. And
John Calvin
#84. Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.
William Whewell
#85. The most intense skeptics and the most intense believers of our age share a common conviction: that beneath all superficial appearances lies a deeper truth.
Mark Juergensmeyer
#86. Sacrifices by believers should not be done out of pity
Sunday Adelaja
#87. As believers we all have an opportunity and moral obligation to recognize our spiritual common ground; to rise above our differences; to combat prejudice and intolerance.
Queen Noor Of Jordan
#88. As for the accusation of intellectual pride, surely the boot is on the other foot. Atheists don't claim to know anything with certainty
it's the believers who know it all.
Barbara Smoker
#89. Meaningful local church involvement is not an optional spiritual discipline; it is the essential context within which believers are intended to find Christ and grow in him.
Erik Thoennes
#90. For what it's worth, in my experience astronomers are more likely than biologists to be believers. But several surveys, more scientific than my anecdotal experiences, have confirmed that in academic settings, the real atheists are to be found in English Literature departments.
Guy Consolmagno
#91. Of course, apologies are rarely acceptable to true believers - or to anyone who believes in *pure* good, or in pure evil.
John Irving
#92. And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women (Acts 5:14)- So not only was there Holy Ghost boldness and Holy Ghost power and Holy Ghost conviction, but also Holy Ghost conversions.
Oswald J. Smith
#93. There Are No Believers in This World:
There Are Only the Make Believers and the Non-Believers.
Sharon Esther Lampert
#94. Seeking God? We have totally revised corporate worship services to be sensitive to "seekers." If worship were to be tailored for seekers, it would be directed exclusively to believers, for no one except believers ever seeks God (Rom. 3:9-12).
R.C. Sproul
#95. We need to encourage new believers to feed on God's Word - it is nourishment for the soul.
Billy Graham
#96. If we are ashamed to imitate our Lord's sufferings, which He endured for us, and to suffer as He suffered, it is obvious that we shall not become partakers with Him in His glory. If that is true of us we shall be believers in word only, not in deed. When deeds are absent, our faith is dead.
Symeon The New Theologian
#97. God's grace is illustrated and magnified in the poverty and trials of believers. Saints
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#98. Through Christ Jesus, God has blessed the Gentiles with the same blessing he promised to Abraham, so that we who are believers might receive the promised[*] Holy Spirit through faith.
Anonymous
#99. Everybody hates death, fears death, but only those, the believers who know the life after death and the reward after death, would be the ones who will be seeking death.
Mohamed Atta
#100. Spreading the Word of Christ and the Kingdom should be our goal as believers
Sunday Adelaja