Top 100 The Believer Quotes
#1. For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be Himself for you. And in the end, what we discover is that this really is enough.
Tullian Tchividjian
#2. A fundamental aim of Mawlid al-Nabi a is to attain love and proximity of the Prophet and to revive the believer's relationship with his most revered person.
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
#3. Conversion is essential, but it is a beginning, not an end. The believer in Jesus Christ is not simply rescued from the penalty of his sin; he is redeemed to love God and his neighbor so that others might come to know him.
Max Anders
#4. For the believer there is hope beyond the grave, because Jesus Christ has opened the door to heaven for us by His death and resurrection.
Billy Graham
#5. Truly, if faith is there, the believer cannot hold back ... he breaks out into good works.
Martin Luther
#6. Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God's work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers.
Watchman Nee
#7. The mythical America?that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude facts at your feet.
Jonathan Raban
#8. My hope, my real hope, is that whatever you hold in your heart, whatever you truly believe, and you've put your faith in, that that's what 's waiting for you. I think that'd be wonderful. You know what I mean? I think that would be the culmination of the life of the devout, or the believer.
Joe Carnahan
#9. People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser ... and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
John Ruskin
#10. Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the sole object of pleasing God.
Martin Luther
#11. The resurrection never becomes a fact of experience until the risen Lord lives in the heart of the believer.
Peter Marshall
#12. Paranoia, he said, was fundamentally egocentric, and every conspiracy theory served in some way to aggrandize the believer.
But he was also fond of saying, at other times, that even paranoid schizophrenics have enemies.
William Gibson
#13. Progressive sanctification is not a partnership with the Spirit in the sense that we each - the believer and the Holy Spirit - do our respective tasks. Rather, we work as He enables us to work. His work lies behind all our work and makes our work possible.
Jerry Bridges
#14. Remember your philosopher's doubts, Miles. Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.
Frank Herbert
#15. to put forth my final words on this subject...there is no dilemma, there is no problem...unless you, the believer...create the problem yourself by adopting a set of beliefs that puts you at odds with the ongoing labor of science and discovery. I am not telling you here that god does
Robert Butler
#16. To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions ...
Joseph A. Schumpeter
#17. Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.
Henry Ward Beecher
#18. The unbeliever imagines that religion pretends to offer answers, while the believer knows that the only promise it makes is to multiply questions.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#19. The believer feels a compulsion to act far beyond basic altruism, and that defies explanation.
Devorah Kalani
#20. [Human] wisdom is the believer's lost belonging; he is the most worthy of it wherever he finds it.
Tariq Ramadan
#21. I want to be an example, the person who when they look at, they say, "That guy is a Christian, there's no doubt about it." I want to be blameless. I want to be an encouragement. I want to be a role model for the believer.
Christian Hosoi
#22. Out of the believer's heart shall flow rivers of living water (John 7:38). The astonishing new reality in this mighty flow of the Spirit is how sovereignly God is bringing together streams of life that have been isolated from one another for a very long time.
Richard J. Foster
#23. The day of one's birth is a good day for the believer, but the day of death is the greatest day that a Christian can ever experience in this world because that is the day he goes home, the day he walks across the threshold, the day he enters the Father's house.
R.C. Sproul
#24. The business of the believer with his Bible open is to pray, 'Lord, give me the meaning and spirit of your word, while it lies open before me; apply your word with power to my soul, threatening or promise, doctrine or precept, whatever it may be; lead me into the soul and marrow of your word.'
Charles Spurgeon
#25. Why this meaningless talk about the believer, the kafir, the obedient, the sinner, the rightly guided, the misdirected, the Muslim, the pious, the infidel, the fire worshipper? All are like beads in a rosary.
Anonymous
#26. Thus, although arguments and evidence may be used to support the believer's faith, they are never properly the basis of that faith.
William Lane Craig
#27. The man of Love follows the path of God-and shows affection to both the believer and the nonbe-liever.
Muhammad Iqbal
#28. within the same person described ... we have not one or even two but at least three distinct entities.
1. The old sin nature-the root cause of all sin.
2. The new divine nature-which is unable to sin.
3. The believer-who chooses which of the other two will be in control.
Keith A. Mathison
#29. There is presumably a calendar date a moment when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the noes had it.
Tom Stoppard
#30. Heaven is a wonderful place and the benefits for the believer are out of this world!
Billy Graham
#31. Indeed, baptism is a vow, a sacred vow of the believer to follow Christ. Just as a wedding celebrates the fusion of two hearts, baptism celebrates the union of sinner with Savior.
Max Lucado
#32. Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.
Ellen G. White
#33. The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer's passivity.
Watchman Nee
#34. The Holy Spirit puts ideas into the heart of the believer
Sunday Adelaja
#35. Urging the need for community upon American religionists is a vain enterprise; the experiential encounter with Jesus or God is too overwhelming for memories of community to abide, and the believer returns from the abyss of ecstasy with the self enhanced and otherness devalued.
Harold Bloom
#37. I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)
William James
#38. False teaching - anything that would weaken the believer's ties to his Lord - must be confronted wherever it appears, even if that confrontation requires painful correction.
Max Anders
#40. The believer who harbors bitterness and malice in his heart is giving Satan one of his most effective beachheads! These
Warren W. Wiersbe
#41. Even though every identity marker I have can be taken from me, the grace and peace of the Trinity overflows into the life of the believer.
Matt Chandler
#42. Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.
Robert Moses
#43. Whoever makes an attempt on a man's life, on a man's liberty, on a man's honour inspires us with a feeling of horror in every way analogous to that which the believer experiences when he sees his idol profaned.
Emile Durkheim
#44. The Law is used un-lawfully, not when presented as the rule of the believer's life, but when it is opposed to Christ!
Arthur W. Pink
#45. These three - fellowship, the Word, and prayer - will enable the believer to experience the new life in his heart: in his intellect, emotions, will, and spiritual life.
Charles C. Ryrie
#46. When the believer is faced with a decision regarding a questionable matter, he should never proceed unless he has complete peace about it. If there is nothing wrong with it, then God is able to give complete peace.
Curtis Hutson
#47. In the believer there is nothing that can magnify man; he is planted, nourished, and protected by the Lord's own hand, and to Him let all the glory be ascribed.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#48. As soon as any idea is a consolation the tendency to falsify it becomes strong: hence the traditional problem of preventing the idea of God from degenerating in the believer's mind.
Iris Murdoch
#49. It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.
Adolph Saphir
#50. Through the Reformation, the mechanical relation of nature and grace was superceded by an ethical one, so that the restoration of the law of God in every sphere of life became the concern of the believer.
Henry R. Van Til
#51. Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late.
Calvin Miller
#52. The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature
: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#53. The chief difference between the believer and the unbeliever is forgiveness. The only thing that qualifies a person to be a minister in the name of Christ is that that person has experienced forgiveness and wants to tell of it to others.
R.C. Sproul
#54. But God will span the universe to meet the believer who is real. He'd take an honest mess over a pretty lie any day.
Jen Hatmaker
#55. Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.
William Faulkner
#56. He had the arrogance of the believer, but none of the humility of the deeply religious.
V.S. Ramachandran
#57. I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory.
F. Sionil Jose
#58. There are those today that say we must do as others do, that we must conform to the world [to win it], that we must swim with the tide, that we must move with the crowd. But the believer should say, No.
Billy Graham
#59. Getting offended is the bait of Satan for the believer.
David McGee
#60. Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth.
Watchman Nee
#61. Indeed, faith is not, nor can it ever be, the necessary outcome of reflection. Rather, it is the necessary presupposition for reflection. Einstein argues that this is as true for the scientist as it is for the believer.
Michael G Harvey
#62. Much guilt arises in the life of the believer from practicing the chameleon life of environmental adaptation.
Beth Moore
#63. A computer ... has no worth unless it is programmed ... The believer has tremendous potential, but that potential cannot be used until he is programmed with the Word of God.
Billy Graham
#64. Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
Franz Kafka
#65. The boundless stores of Providence are engaged for the support of the believer.
Charles Spurgeon
#66. In other words, the death to sin of Romans 6 is a separation from the power of the sin nature to cause the believer to continue in sin. It
Charles C. Ryrie
#67. The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new creation", capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him.
Pope Benedict XVI
#68. True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.
A. Powell Davies
#69. The ability to discern the thoughts and motives of your heart (especially when experiencing intense emotion) is an essential skill for the believer. Recognizing thoughts and imaginations of the heart is a prerequisite of bringing them 'captive to the obedience of Christ'.
Lou Priolo
#70. Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.
James Hal Cone
#71. Revival is the Spirit's passion within the believer to know and to obey the total will of God.
Leonard Ravenhill
#72. There are moments of faith, interspersed with times when the smoke & flames of burning children blot out our faith ... although it flickers again. The difference between the skeptic & the believer is the frequency of faith and not the certitude of one's position.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#73. Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Norman Vincent Peale
#74. The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#75. The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.
Martin Buber
#76. Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.
Philip Yancey
#77. A myth is an unverifiable and typically fantastic story that is nonethless felt to be true and that deal with a theme of some importance to the believer.
John Bierhorst
#78. Faith is the deep want of the soul. We have faculties for the spiritual, as truly as for the outward world. God, the foundation of all existence, may become to the mind the most real of all beings. The believer feels himself resting on an everlasting foundation.
William Henry Channing
#79. When we paint the picture of our salvation for others to see, we may use different colors, textures, and shapes on the edges of the parchment. But in the center can only be a cross. Anything else cheapens grace and cheats the believer.
Beth Moore
#80. When death becomes the property of the believer it receives a new name and is called sleep.
William Arnot
#81. Many beliefs often create heavy fogs so that the believer can't see the realities! The only thing he needs is the cool winds of reason and logic!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#82. God wanted Israel, as He wants Christians, to learn to utterly abhor and detest anything that had the potential of coming between them and their God. The believer's enemies are typically internal rather than external, and they pose a powerful threat to spiritual health and progress.
Max Anders
#83. The expectation of future glory and the joy of future redemption has its counterpart here and now in the implications for the present life of the believer.
Henry R. Van Til
#84. Unlike other human religions, they worshipped something that truly existed. Also unlike other human religions, it was the Lord who was in crisis, and the duty of salvation fell on the shoulders of the believer.
Liu Cixin
#85. Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.
Charles Spurgeon
#86. Sin is the transgression of the law, the death of Christ is the satisfaction of the law, justification is the verdict of the law, and sanctification is the believer's fulfillment of the law.
Ernest F. Kevan
#87. The assurance of the believer is not that God will save him even if he stops believing, but that God will keep him believing
God will sustain you in faith, he will make your hope firm and stable to the end. He will cause you to persevere.
John Piper
#88. If, through the years, the Cross in the life of the believer had been adhered to as strenuously as the Cross for salvation, the Church would not today be so plagued with modernistic infidelity.
L.E. Maxwell
#90. I am a Christian. He who answers thus has declared everything at once-his country, profession, family; the believer belongs to no city on earth but to the heavenly Jerusalem.
Saint John Chrysostom
#91. My understanding from the Word of God is that I am supposed to preach for the maturation of the believer with a view that lost people are there.
Matt Chandler
#93. The believer does not use God's power; God's power uses him.
Kenneth Wuest
#94. The believer can and will say no to any wrong desires when he has said a bigger yes to Christ's will for him.
Jim Berg
#96. Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.
Emil Cioran
#97. The gifts of the Gospel are given to strengthen the faith of the believer.
Brigham Young
#98. a positive imputation of Christ's obedience must be imputed to the believer beyond the forgiveness of sins in order for him to be justified. Justification, therefore, is viewed as a twofold act: forgiveness and the imputation of positive righteousness.
Brian Vickers
#99. If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
Martin Luther
#100. God gives us a glimpse of what heaven will be like for the believer. It will have the characteristics of a happy home, a holy city, a glorious garden, and a beautiful bride. This staggers the imagination!
Billy Graham
