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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
The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction. -- Abu Bakr
I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good. -- Sandra Bullock
I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies. -- Scott Ian
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
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
It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible. -- Eric Hoffer
Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard. -- Eric Hoffer
To a true believer, death is but going to church: from the church below to the church above. -- Augustus Toplady
In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize. -- Gore Vidal
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
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
The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis. -- Sigmund Freud
The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breeds pride and arrogance. -- Eric Hoffer
Pressed for rules and verities, All i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer. Think-too-long is never-act. Scratch a myth and find a fact. -- Phyllis McGinley
Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity means believing absolutely in something with a huge amount of proof to the contrary. We are the true believers. -- Joss Whedon
Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers. They deserve it, after all, and they're the ones that are going to spread the word for you. -- Seth Godin
Im a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so Im never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer. -- Frank Abagnale
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
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
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
I think President Obama is the most radical president this nation's ever seen. And in particular, I think he is a true believer in government control of the economy and of our everyday lives. In my judgment, we are facing what I consider to be the epic battle of our generation, quite literally the battle over whether we remain a free market nation. -- Ted Cruz
A man asked Muhammad what was the mark whereby he might know the reality of his faith. Muhammad said, 'If thou derive pleasure from the good which thou hast performed and thou be grieved for the evil which thou hast committed, thou art a true believer.' The man said. 'In what doth a fault really consist' Muhammad said, 'when action pricketh thy conscience, forsake it.' -- Muhammad
All mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world. They do this by claiming that the ultimate and absolute truth is already embodied in their doctrine and that there is no truth nor certitude outside it. 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
When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans. -- Bob Woodward
I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer. -- Janet Jackson
I'm a true believer that if someone bothers you, you care. -- Elisabeth Hasselbeck
I consider myself a Christian - a true believer in Jesus Christ - that He died for our sins. -- Antonio Sabato, Jr.
When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God. -- Jim Bakker
I'm a true believer that unless you're Prince or Stevie Wonder - and even Prince is showing that he needs help - not everybody can produce themselves. I'm definitely not that person. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
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
I'm a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so I'm never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer. -- Frank Abagnale
As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything. -- Darren Criss
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
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
Sanctification is that inward spiritual work which the Lord Jesus Christ works in a man by the Holy Spirit when He calls him to be a true believer. He not only washes him from his sins in His own blood, but He also separates him from his natural love of sin and the world, puts a new principle in his heart and makes him practically godly in life. -- J. C. Ryle
Coincidence is the science of the true believer. -- Chet Raymo
One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing -- H. L. Mencken
I'm a true believer that everything happens the way it should. -- Charlize Theron
Death is robbed of much of its terror for the true believer. -- Billy Graham
The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day. -- George Whitefield
A true believer does not fear physical death, rather he fears the death of his heart -- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
No man is a true believer unless he desireth for his brother that which he desireth for himself -- Elijah Muhammad
Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness. -- Ellen G. White
You care, you dare and you share; this is the unforgettable rule of every true believer and achiever. -- Israelmore Ayivor
The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person. -- Eric Hoffer
Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer. -- Charles Spurgeon
It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour. -- Ashoka
No evidence against a firmly-held belief, no matter how good or abundant it may be, will sway the true believer. -- James Randi
I am a true believer that a record should not be a bunch of songs that sound exactly the same. -- Bethany Cosentino
True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer. -- A. Powell Davies
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
Some people tend to believe that I'm a strong believer, a strong Christian, but that's not true. I'm not a strong believer. I'm very weak. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
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
It was my first impulse, but I chose to play the priest as a true believer who was an absolute man of faith that absolutely supports the church. -- William H. Macy
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
I'm a true believer in working hard and partying hard. I'm fortunate to be one of those people who can have just as much fun partying without alcohol. -- Richard Branson
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. -- Tullian Tchividjian
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
There is no horror, no amount of evil in the world, that a true believer can't rationalize as consistent with a loving God. It's the ultimate way of fooling yourself. -- Jerry A. Coyne
You see, it doesn't matter if they're wrong. From 9/11 to recent shootings here in the United States, there's nothing more dangerous than a true believer on his own crazy mission. -- Brad Meltzer
I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subjects of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am. -- Tony Horwitz

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