The True Believer Quotes

#1. The facts on which the true believer bases his conclusions must not be derived from his experience or observation but from holy writ.

Eric Hoffer

#2. Faith has its price. When misfortune strikes the true believer, he assumes he has done something to deserve punishment, but isn't quite certain what. The realist, recognizing that he lives in a Darwinian universe, is simply grateful to have made it to another sunset.

Jack McDevitt

#3. The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person.

Eric Hoffer

#4. The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.

George Whitefield

#5. It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.

Ashoka

#6. [T]he 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

#7. The loyalty of the true believer is to the whole
the church, party, nation
and not to his fellow true believer.

Eric Hoffer

#8. The true believer is not someone who disengages from this world in order to focus on heaven, but rather the one who tries to make this world more like heaven.

Alister E. McGrath

#9. The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.

Abu Bakr

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

Billy Graham

#11. The chief thought in life with the true believer is: How can I obey God?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#12. Wherever they may have come from, and wherever they may have gone,
unicorns live inside the true believer's heart.
Which means as long as we can dream, there will be unicorns.

Bruce Coville

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

Gore Vidal

#14. No evidence against a firmly-held belief, no matter how good or abundant it may be, will sway the true believer.

James Randi

#15. No flesh, not even that of the true believer, is so completely under the influence of the Spirit that it will not bite or devour, or at least neglect, the commandment of love.

Martin Luther

#16. Coincidence is the science of the true believer.

Chet Raymo

#17. Collective unity is not the result of the brotherly love of the faithful for each other. The loyalty of the true believer is to the whole the church, party, nation and not to his fellow true believer. True loyalty between individuals is possible only in a loose and relatively free society .

Eric Hoffer

#18. If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.

Eric Hoffer

#19. Yes, he was leaving, but he'd told her repeatedly that they would find a way to make it work. and yes, it was true that they didn't know each other well, but considering the short time they'd been together, he'd learned enough to know that he could love her forever. all they needed was a chance.

Nicholas Sparks

#20. With the certitude of a true believer, Vellya Paapen had assured the twins that there was no such thing in the world as a black cat. He said that there were only black cat chaped holes in the universe.

Arundhati Roy

#21. The card-carrying furfuckers looked down their narrow green true-believer noses at Zeb and his edgy like,

Margaret Atwood

#22. Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.

Jane Haddam

#23. I see someone who's really good at saying the right things, but when push comes to shove, doesn't mean a thing he says.

Nicholas Sparks

#24. 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

#25. True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.

A. Powell Davies

#26. It is not miracles that bring a realist to faith. A true realist, if he is not a believer, will always find in himself the strength and ability not to believe in miracles as well, and if a miracle stands before him as an irrefutable fact, he will sooner doubt his own senses than admit the fact.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#27. 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

#28. You know for years, I've heard financial experts stress the importance of teaching your kids about money, but it wasn't until I saw my own son's perspective change that I became a true believer.

LZ Granderson

#29. No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#30. A true believer does not fear physical death, rather he fears the death of his heart

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#31. Though there are very serious disadvantages about being a true believer. Who would want four wives at any time, especially when one pays for the doubtful privilege by abstaining from wine?

C.S. Forester

#32. Jesus' intention in this parable was to compare the only good soil to the ones that were not legitimate alternatives. To Him, there was one option for a true believer.

Francis Chan

#33. 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

#34. In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.

King Hussein I

#35. Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths on offer, every believer should expect damnation purely as a matter of probability.

Bertrand Russell

#36. Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.

Ellen G. White

#37. True believers aren't about to be seduced by the facts.

Gary Sloan

#38. I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.

Shaun Cassidy

#39. To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.

Eric Hoffer

#40. The ordinary American is the opposite of a cynic. He is on the average more of a believer and a defender of the faith in humanity than the rest of the Occidentals. It is a relatively important matter to him to be true to his own ideals and to carry them out in actual life.

Gunnar Myrdal

#41. He wanted to shout, telling her to stop. He wanted to tell her that he could stay, that he wanted to stay, that if leaving meant losing her, then going home wasn't worth it. But the words stayed trapped inside him ...

Nicholas Sparks

#42. I am the salt of the earth, and I do not believe in the ninety percent rigmarole that is organized religion. But miracles? Miracles, my friend are a different thing entirely. From what I can see, miracles are built from love, and as far as love is concerned, I am a true believer.

Lorna Landvik

#43. The bounden duty of a true believer towards men who profess to be Christians, and yet deny the Word of the Lord, and reject the fundamentals of the Gospel, is to come out from among them

Charles Spurgeon

#44. The permanent misfits can find salvation only in a complete separation from the self; and they usually find it by losing themselves in the compact collectivity of a mass movement.

Eric Hoffer

#45. 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

#46. To a true believer, death is but going to church: from the church below to the church above.

Augustus Toplady

#47. I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subject of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.

Tony Horwitz

#48. I have had UFO experiences, and yet, at the same time, I can easily be convinced that none of it is true. It's hard to say whether or not you're a believer. I've been interested in that subject matter, like lots of people. Perhaps foolishly, I've allowed some of that stuff to creep into my music.

Frank Black

#49. I am not a believer of the law of attraction (though I do not deny the possibilities of it to be true), but I firmly believe in the ability of making choices, the ability to take conscious decisions.

Namrata Kumari

#50. I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.

Clive Owen

#51. A true believer, indeed, need never draw a weapon, need never rise in argument, or howl in fury, or make fists, or roll in a mob to crush some helpless, innocent enemy. A true believer needs none of those things. How much of the world insists on living this lie? Blinking,

Steven Erikson

#52. I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.

John Owen

#53. I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years.

Zachary Quinto

#54. Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.

Charles Spurgeon

#55. I am a true believer that a record should not be a bunch of songs that sound exactly the same.

Bethany Cosentino

#56. Upon death the believer goes immediately into the presence of Christ in heaven, a realm far better than this earth ... Heaven is our true home.

Paul P. Enns

#57. To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.

Eric Hoffer

#58. Every believer is an anarchist at heart. True believers would rather see governments topple and history rewritten than scuff the cover of their faith.

Jeanette Winterson

#59. The intolerant "true believer" is a menace to any field, yet I suspect each one of us finds traces of that person in ourself.

Carl R. Rogers

#60. I'm a true believer that everything happens the way it should.

Charlize Theron

#61. 124. And whoever does righteous good deeds, male or female, and is a true believer in the Oneness of Allaah (Muslim), such will enter Paradise and not the least injustice, even to the size of a Naqeera (speck on the back of a date-stone), will be done to them.

Anonymous

#62. I am not a day dreamer, I am a believer, that after every painful love I have gone through, it is just an experience to crack open the deepest parts of my core and allow to me to delve into a passion so rare, that I will find a love that was almost, never meant to be.

Nikki Rowe

#63. Emotion is created by a cause, whether that cause is factual or imaginary does not matter, as longer as the believer holds it as true.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#64. It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

Eric Hoffer

#65. My question to the atheist is, do you want an atheist world or a peaceful world? And to the believer, do you want a religious world or a peaceful world? Religious orientation doesn't define peace, but the answer here may define one's true nature.

Abhijit Naskar

#66. You care, you dare and you share; this is the unforgettable rule of every true believer and achiever.

Israelmore Ayivor

#67. A Better Beard that Yours. 'All true devotees wear a beard,' said the Imam to his audience. 'Show me a thick and lustrous beard and I'll show you a true believer!' 'My goat has a beard far bushier and longer than yours,' replied Nasrudin. 'Does that mean he is a better Muslim than you?

Idries Shah

#68. The mindset of a believer every time he opens the Bible must be the conviction that whatever the Bible says is true. We cannot trust our reason to determine what is true or false, right or wrong.

Michael P. V. Barrett

#69. I grew up in a small hotel with many rooms, so when I became aware of 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,' I inspected all the wardrobes, sure one had to be a portal to another world. I was also a true believer in faeries, and perhaps still am.

Jo Beverley