Believer Quotes - page 18

I am a big believer that whatever has gone lies in the past. You should only learn from it, and you should only look at the present and the future. That's been my father's philosophy and mine as well. (Mukesh Ambani)
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure. View quote
Joseph de Maistre
I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself. View quote
Sean M. Carroll
While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment. View quote
Barry Goldwater
If you are a believer in evolution, answer this. Did the first fish that crawled out of the ocean to become an animal have lungs or gills? If he had lungs (which were needed to breathe while on land), why did they evolve while he was underwater? If he had only gills (which were needed to survive while underwater, he wouldn't survive on land for more than two minutes. View quote
Ray Comfort
The conscience is a dilemma for the believer in evolution. He doesn't know why it exists. Neither do the experts. Why would evolution create something that tells us that it's wrong to lie, to steal, to kill, and to commit adultery? Was primitive man committing these sins before he evolved a conscience? If he wasn't, why didn't his conscience evolve? If he was, why did the conscience evolve? View quote
Ray Comfort
I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism. View quote
Charles Kennedy
What if he is a true believer, have you thought about that? View quote
Charles Stross
I came to the subject a True Believer in dark matter, but it was MOND that nailed the predictions for the LSB galaxies that I was studying (McGaugh & de Blok, 1998), not any flavor of dark matter. So what I am supposed to conclude? View quote
Stacy McGaugh
Philip [II of Spain] was a great believer in diplomacy, or the art of lying. He fooled some of the people some of the time. View quote
Will Cuppy
I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl. (Anne Hathaway)
I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce. View quote
Charles B. Rangel
The dialectic between the social situation of the believer and Scripture and the traditions of the Church is the place to begin the investigation of the question, Who is Jesus Christ for us today? Social context, Scripture, and tradition operate together to enable the people of God to move actively and reflectively with Christ in the struggle of freedom. View quote
James Hal Cone
The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer. View quote
Edward McKendree Bounds
If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else. View quote
Jennifer Lopez
We today have that same power if we but choose it, but choose it we must. What makes each of us unique is the individual choices we make. There will always be doubters, those who prefer inaction. I have heard it all, but I am still a believer in the dream. I choose to believe. View quote
Yolanda King
I am a 100 percent, dyed-in-the-wool, card-carrying believer in the dream. View quote
Yolanda King
I am a believer in passing the ball on the ground, I was lucky to be part of teams like that at Arsenal, with the French national team and with Monaco and at Barcelona. I know you can win in other ways, but I believe that is the way football should be played. View quote
Thierry Henry
A believer is a bird in a cage, a free-thinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
What can we surmise about the likelihood of someone's being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are a believer? Virtually nothing, say psychologists, sociologists, and others who have studied that question for decade. View quote
Alfie Kohn
God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them. (Kahlil Gibran)
Hannity-"I am a believer. I believe in a creator." Hitchens-"And that's where it stops, or you think this creator cares about you too?" View quote
Christopher Hitchens
Past sins, if you repent of them, whiten you. They made a great psalmist out of David, a faithful believer out of the prostitute Rahab, a zealous apostle out of the persecutor Saul. I have been a loved preacher and writer with a particular vocation. My sermons and books would not have had the same quality without my past of anarchy, vice, and violent atheism. View quote
Richard Wurmbrand
The Protestant theologian replaced the church's feudal cosmology with a worldview centered on the personal relationship of each believer with Christ. The democratization of worship fit well with the new communication/energy matrix that was empowering the new burgher class. View quote
Jeremy Rifkin
I'm also a great believer in the dream life; that while we're asleep, a deep subconscious connection is made about our profoundest fears, hopes, loves, losses, dreads and desires. View quote
Andrew Motion