The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day. — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour. — Ashoka Copy Share Image
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It was my first impulse, but I chose to play the priest as a true believer who was an absolute man of… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
“The loyalty of the true believer is to the whole -- the church, party, nation -- and not to his fellow true… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The bounden duty of a true believer towards men who profess to be Christians, and yet deny the Word of the Lord,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“There is no question that spending time with God changes our desires. We always become like the one we worship. But it’s… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“She thought all Janine's snivelling and repentance meant something, she thought Janine had been broken, she thought Janine was a true believer.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“In order to convince and inspire others to follow and accomplish a mission, a leader must be a true believer in the… — Jocko Willink Copy Share Image
Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
My parents were true believers in the efficacy of American constitutional democracy, and I was thoroughly inculcated with reverence for what we… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“The True Believer ignores anything that doesn't fit his belief system. Instead, he inevitably comes to hold those beliefs at a very… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
There is too much ideological conformity in gender studies. The true-believers fashion the theories, write the textbooks and teach the students. When… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
“Kirstein’s realization came sometime later, although he could never say exactly where or when. There is not one type of German, went… — Robert M. Edsel Copy Share Image
“But Pastor Prince, doesn't such preaching just make believers feel that it is all right to go on sinning?" Let me ask… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
The first generation of school reformers I talk about - nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann, Catharine Beecher - they are true… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“A sinner is justified and reconciled with God the moment he truly believes in the person and atoning work of Christ. However,… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
The true believer is not someone who disengages from this world in order to focus on heaven, but rather the one who… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
With the certitude of a true believer, Vellya Paapen had assured the twins that there was no such thing in the world… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity means believing absolutely in something with a… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I still believe in public radio's potential. Because it's the one mass medium that's still crafted almost entirely by true believers. — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subjects of maps I have always been a true believer.… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
Pressed for rules and verities, All i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer.… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make… — Elias Hicks Copy Share Image
When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die,… — Jim Bakker Copy Share Image
I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and… — Scott Ian Copy Share Image
Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly. — Mark Thomas Copy Share Image
“I see someone who's really good at saying the right things, but when push comes to shove, doesn't mean a thing he… — Nicolas Sparks Copy Share Image
If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image