How To Use Believer In A Sentence

  • The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, or Shakers, remain the longest-lived communal society in the United States.
  • Its inward sign is the true spiritual kingdom: the covenantal relationship between God and believers.
  • The Protestant Reformers defined the Roman doctrine of Works as a form of barter system, whereby believers could accrue spiritual benefits for themselves and salvation through their performance.
  • The challenge now is to convert the doubters into believers.
  • He wanted to show that one could be an educated and intelligent believer without abandoning the apostolic rule of faith and life.
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  • Believers, regenerate persons, who believe in Him, and rely on Him, have put on Christ.
  • Table 15.1 represents only the bivariate relationship between “true believer” and various other traits. American Grace
  • Further, with this requirement Japanese Baptists had to loosen the requirement of believer's baptism by immersion and tolerate various other baptismal traditions.
  • I'm a strong believer in the capitalist system.
  • He does not accept homosexuality as a legitimate lifestyle, and of course he believes in evangelizing among nonbelievers. November 2004
  • Naturally this had immediate consequences for the destitute fed by the church chest that rich believers funded.
  • a curative process, but an ardent believer of the reality of somnambular clairvoyance as an invaluable gift of certain privileged organizations. A Strange Story — Volume 01
  • I met Len Sellers in the mid-1990s, when he was still a journalism professor at San Francisco State University, where, among other things, he taught a newswriting course that was generally considered make-or-break for aspiring journalists, a hard-core exercise in using public documents and other reliable information sources to write solid news reports. ... he was an early believer in the possibilities of online journalism. OpEdNews - Quicklink: Nonprofit-Funded, University-Based News
  • To balance this he remained a staunch member of the Church of England and a firm believer in the indissoluble union between Church and State.
  • It was as if a professed unbeliever in ghosts should be frightened by a ghost story.
  • While persuading believers to put less emphasis on ritual, he must also set up a real deterrent - courts with real teeth that do not kowtow to rich thieves.
  • Thus, it should make little difference to the non-believer, in my mind, whether God had anything to do with the formation of the canon or not.
  • It is shared by religious believers and non-believers of very different social backgrounds and in very different countries.
  • I am a firm believer in capitalistic competition as a driver for innovation (which is why I hate the oil companies SO SO much, dirty price setting oligarchs!) and the RPG market should be no different. So What Is A “Fair” Price For A Gaming PDF? « Geek Related
  • Many believers accept the broad seven deadly sins or "capital vices" laid down in the 6th century by Pope Gregory the Great and popularised in the Middle Ages by Aquinas, and by Dante in The Inferno.
  • It is never particularly persuasive to address believers as if they are idiots in need of education.
  • Along the way, Polkinghorne argues that going beyond the basics of theism can make belief more credible to nonbelievers.
  • In addition, that same belonging nonbeliever is likely to be a better neighbor than a comparable nonbeliever who never enters church. American Grace
  • But I'm a big believer in shooting a film in its actual location, I just think it helps so much.
  • He is the only confessed believer in this symposium of essays.
  • The criticism that atheists are less moral and honest has been disproved by study after study. Atheists believe that morality is man-made, and follow their moral ideas which are more or less compatible with those of religious believers. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • It resembled a nineteenth-century spiritualist picture, those pale blurs of ectoplasm in which believers detected the forms of the dead. SACRAMENT
  • It's an ingenious hybrid where true believers provide the cannon fodder while an elite cabal of generals, arms merchants, land appropriators, oil prospectors and slave traders, muscle their way into the profits of war.
  • Pope Benedict lauded himself for the respect and solidarity he gives to the minority groups, the emarginated and religious believers of other denominations while at the same juncture he was encouraging the Maltese majority to continue with its ongoing suppressive attitude towards the minorities. Timesofmalta.com
  • All the while unbelievers laugh; men of weak faith are shaken; faith is uncertain; souls are drenched in ignorance, because adulterators of the word imitate the truth. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
  • Indeed, one might think spreading the story of the transfiguration could help convert a few unbelievers.
  • Believers also carry a knife - a kirpan - as one of five key emblems of their faith.
  • He died on Christmas Day, 1946 — ironically appropriate for a disbeliever who once confessed to be studying the Bible “for loopholes.” Five People Born on January 29 | myFiveBest
  • The inworking of this blessedness in the case of each believer proceeds solely and immediately from Christ himself, through the word of institution in which the redeeming and communion-forming love of Christ is presented and ever operates as a stimulus to piety. The Theology of Schleiermacher: A Condensed Presentation of His Chief Work, "The Christian Faith"
  • Atheism is not anti-God but is strongly opposing any religion that creates the existence of God and use it to corrupt and control the human mind. The atheists reject the existence of God. God does not exist – but they are not necessarily irreligious. They can be believers of any spiritual belief that is not God- based. They are just as ethical and moral as religious believers. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • Instead, the man seeking to rescue the children and his fellow citizens from inhumane conditions has been called a disbeliever on national TV. The Jawa Report
  • If you buy the biblical spin of the Religious Right folks -- that make up the bulk of the Tea Party movement -- the implication is clear: Jesus will soon return, send all Democrats, gays, blacks, progressives, liberals, college-educated unbelievers, etc., to Hell, while saving what Sarah Palin calls "us" "Real Americans" -- in other words unreconstructed frightened and resentful white lower middle class Americans. AlterNet
  • Su Ai-chih, a 67-year-old retiree and spiritual medium, says a woman who was drowned by Chinese soldiers and turned into a goddess has even asked believers for help in reconnecting with her family on the mainland. Archive 2008-04-01
  • Whence we may observe, — First, That the greatest and most eximious expression of the love of God towards believers is in sending his Son to die for them, not sparing him for their sake; this is made the chief of all. The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
  • The word that lurks in the criticism of Webster et al is 'bibliolatry', but strictly speaking that is not something which orthodox believers have been guilty of. Exiled Preacher
  • Then God sent down on him and on the stubborn unbelievers with him a thunderblast from the heavens of His power, which destroyed them all with a mighty clamour, and neither he nor any of his company set eyes on the city. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III
  • Conservative believers in individual liberty and personal autonomy should allow citizens to freely choose a life partner whether gay or straight.
  • Ahmad Kamakim and say, ‘O Prince of True Believers, order him to be searched and I will bring the lanthorn forth from his bosom.’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Roberts meant a lot to a vast audience of Pentecostals, those believers ridiculed - by atheists, agnostics and mainstream religions alike - as backwater snake charmers, poor, uneducated serfs lucky to scrape up enough money to pay the rent on the shack and procure "vittles" for Sunday dinner. Lonestartimes.com
  • There were valid arguments on both sides, but generally the race-blind believers in birthright made a better case: that ten of the thirteen original states allowed free black men to vote; that Americans of African descent had been recognized as citizens by the federal government in various ways (even Andrew Jackson had hailed his free black soldiers as "fellow citizens" after the Battle of New Orleans). Van Gosse: Birthright Citizenship Is Bedrock Americanism
  • As a passionate believer that we should keep the pound and stay out of the euro, I am allowed a short gloat.
  • These believers express a desire for political authority, but only of the type supportive of pro-family social nucleus and traditionally-bound, regulated liberties.
  • `What I'm saying is that my Catholicism, though I'm a true believer, doesn't permeate the whole of my life. OUT OF THE ASHES
  • Francis Galton, a strong believer in the hereditarian position, founded the discipline of eugenics, which sought to improve the quality of human heredity by manipulating human reproduction.
  • Of course the objective existence of demons doesn't matter so long as the believer has total faith in them.
  • Will is a great believer in the power of effective business communication but understands just how terrifying speaking in public can be for most people.
  • She's been a believer since she survived a terrible car accident.
  • He regularly fails to distinguish the power of Christian worship from acts of magical theurgy: in either kind of activity, the unwavering faith of the believer is what confers success. Loss of Faith
  • I know free-market thinkers and believers just hate the term regulation, but we saw the damage done by banks who went for years unregulated. Is protecting health insurance companies truly healthcare reform?
  • Every religion has its fundies, people who believe that they are the blessed ones and everyone else is an unbeliever, unworthy.
  • I think it's probably true that a lot of non-believers are rude about religion.
  • To propagate the true religion, was the duty of a faithful Mussulman: the unbelievers were _his_ enemies, and those of the Prophet; and, in the hands of the Turks, the cimeter was the only instrument of conversion. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6
  • Participation in Christ is an instance of communion that opens believers to proportionate participation in all of the dimensions we have discussed.
  • However, I am a firm believer that the man is the head of the household and it works for us.
  • It constitutes the Church's marching orders, sending believers into all the world to share the Gospel with every person.
  • Even though we may be looking at a long, slow recovery, which will of course have short term bumps in its path, it almost certainly will continue to favor people who remain believers. Frank A. Weil: What Columbus Must Have Worried About
  • It was difficult for them to work together with Yugoslavia which was a believer in agrarian democracy. The Small Nations in World Affairs
  • Thus, dispensational theology made a lot of sense to both Pentecostal and evangelical believers at this point in history.
  • To those whom I have told this story since, some have disputed whether this was correct application of the sharia, primarily upon two grounds: (1) that she was not a Believer, and therefore sharia cannot apply, or (2) that the punishment for fornication is merely a hundred lashes, not the death by stoning required for adultery. The Parable of the Spider
  • As a Neo-Pagan who believes in the immanent nature of Divinity, I am a great believer that all of the Earth is sacred.
  • Molly was a believer in homeopathy and underwent her last operation and subsequent treatment in the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital.
  • Again: if true believers shall live, and continue to the saving of their souls, in opposition to them that fall away to perdition, then they shall certainly persevere in their faith, for these two are but one and the same; but that true believers shall live, and believe to the saving of their souls, in opposition to them that draw back, or subduct themselves, to perdition, is the assertion of the Holy Ghost: ergo. The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
  • Although incredulous about Ray at first, she is now a total believer.
  • Believers, animism and shamanism, some Protestant and Catholic Christianity.
  • He is a believer, attends church once a month but is 'not a tub-thumper'. Times, Sunday Times
  • As long as a believer ascribes his views to his faith, he can say anything he wants and if you don't like it, you're the bigot.
  • He was a great believer in expressing aggression, not bottling it up.
  • She would tell of the sadistic punishment wrought unto the unbelievers by the just who trusted in her righteousness.
  • I am a firm believer that good things happen when talented people get together and work hard.
  • Brennan points to the outside as a believer in clean getaways.
  • This part of the thread is pretty much what I had in mind when I said (just downthread from here) I've just learned by experience that having this conversation with True Believers -- of either the religious or political variety -- is usually not fruitful. North Carolina Senate Race Degenerates Into Shouting Match About Atheists
  • No new ‘facts’ will convince the confirmed believer in this false history.
  • And just after Pastor Hanna's sermon a member of the congregation presented herself for a believer's baptism by full immersion.
  • In protest, some believers adopted a way of life known as monasticism.
  • There are many unbelievers who tried to point out several alleged contradictions in the Qur'an but all of their attempts were either out of context, mistranslations or misquotations.
  • Conservatives are by tradition believers in a strong executive.
  • Are the changes enough to transform more non-believers into Corvette buyers and pump sales back up, as Chevrolet hopes?
  • Psychologist Ray Hyman provides a very telling example of how gurus and true believers can deceive themselves into believing what has been demonstrated to be false.
  • Religious people are more likely to be prejudiced, dogmatic and closed-mind, and not all believers are faithful to the moral percepts and principles taught by religion. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • And though Catholic modernism arose in response to the Enlightenment, it may prove to be even more appropriate for postmodern believers.
  • There were many times when I envied the moral clarity of those priests as they tended their flocks of young believers, incessantly preaching the demands of sexual purity.
  • For the believers in society and community, however, such views raised the spectre of lawlessness and anarchic self-indulgence.
  • But how is it possible that an all-loving Allah would want his believers to persecute 'blasphemers'? Welcome to Islam-Watch
  • Personally, I am a firm believer that each individual has a right to his or her own choice of lifestyle.
  • On another hand, it's a wakeup call to believers who sit by while unimaginable evils occur in the name of Jesus and say nothing other besides defensively whining that "all Christians aren't like that," or that the person reacting in grief and outrage is simply "persecuting Christians" because he's a "nonbeliever" (whether he's a nonbeliever or not.) Michael Rowe: Why Anne Rice Has Never Been More of a Christian
  • And now something happened which had hitherto been deemed incredible; the Sultan sued for peace, a true believer and a sovereign, from an unbelieving giaour. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
  • These secular conditions, Bushman suggests, can be understood in two ways: for nonbelievers they help to explain Mormonism's "origins," a word Bushman eschews for the more neutral "beginnings"; for Mormons they can be studied as divinely contrived preparations for the dawning of a new era. Secrets of the Mormons
  • Shriya is a firm believer in God and destiny and says she took up whatever came her way.
  • For what believer doesn't have the sense that her view of God is too simple, too anthropocentric, too indulgent?
  • The mullahs see it as their mission to spread Islam among the unbelievers and some believe they will achieve martyrdom in their attempts to achieve it.
  • Belief provides spiritual warmth, comfort and easiness. If you are a religious believer, you tend to feel more peaceful, satisfying and happy. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • She was a strong believer in women's participation in public affairs.
  • Why, you may ask, do we non-believers take a moment out of our lives once a year to honor a man who is popularly known as a devote Christian who became a civil rights hero? Planet Atheism
  • Lutheran Church Historian Martin Marty argues that all too many pews are filled on Sunday with practical atheists—disguised nonbelievers who behave during the rest of the week as if God did not exist.
  • He had defined the local church as a fellowship of baptised believers.
  • Religion is found not only in the classical texts of our traditions, but in the lived experience of religious believers.
  • The evangelist even preached a sermon in which he encouraged believers to ‘gain all you can; save all you can; give all you can.’
  • Teddy is a great believer in finding happy medium.
  • Despite the chaos and suffering effected in the world by his onslaught, believers expect Ahriman to be defeated in the end of time by Ahura Mazda. Dangle Veils
  • Kennedy, like his brothers, was a believer in statism, in the goodness of large government, in the benevolent wisdom of experts and bureaucrats, in the need for Mother State to not just guard her little tax-paying chicks, but to potentially guide and shape their every step, thought, and action. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
  • His true believers, with the steadfastness that comes from monomania, are energized by anger about the war.
  • Others are no more than a handful of true believers with a nifty website.
  • I am, yes, a believer in redistributing wealth.
  • Not like back in the old days when just a few eccentrics and a handful of true believers would come out.
  • TOG, read my post further down about will vs. free will, choice and metaphysics. this verse is basically commanding believers not to fall away in unbelief. but how does it support Arminianism, or free will theology (if you refuse to be called Arminian)? the ability not to fall away comes from God anyway ( Pulpit Pimps
  • The scourge of McCarthyism made everyone a believer for fear of being labeled a commie pinko.
  • There are still many believers in the prophecies of Mother Shipton, but none believe more implicitly in her sayings than the labouring classes of Somerset. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
  • Garrett's main argument for congregationalism is the priesthood of all believers.
  • He was built as powerfully as a bull and it was common knowledge that he was generously endowed by nature that his martyred wife feared the marriage bed as unbelievers once feared the rack.
  • The Misbelievers at this cry awoke in affright and snatching up their arms, fell one upon other till the morning, when most part of them were dead bodies and but few remained. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Atheism is not anti-God but is strongly opposing any religion that creates the existence of God and use it to corrupt and control the human mind. The atheists reject the existence of God. God does not exist – but they are not necessarily irreligious. They can be believers of any spiritual belief that is not God- based. They are just as ethical and moral as religious believers. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • To those believers shall he who is of my type among men not bind his heart; in those spring – times and many – hued meadows shall he not believe, who knoweth the fickly faint – hearted human species! Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
  • They shared with their nonmystical fellow believers the public practice of prayer, the study of sacred texts, and the deeds of charity. Commonweal Magazine
  • Tolkien tapped into his vast wealth of knowledge concerning mythologies to recast the Christian Mythos in terms non-believers can understand.
  • Religion is a tranquilizer of the soul that makes believers feel a sense of peace and happiness. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • Atheism is not anti-God but is strongly opposing any religion that creates the existence of God and use it to corrupt and control the human mind. The atheists reject the existence of God. God does not exist – but they are not necessarily irreligious. They can be believers of any spiritual belief that is not God- based. They are just as ethical and moral as religious believers. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • I am English, born in Britain, but I am referred to as a heretic, unbeliever, infidel, etc., because I am a Pagan.
  • He explains how believers in the paranormal and scientific skeptics arrive at their conclusions via very different and incompatible ways of thinking.
  • To the most undiscriminating true believers, he was a disaster.
  • (Believers in fairies remind us that fairies are shy creatures that hide when we look.) Dawkins and ID
  • One wife, however, does not suffice to fill the nest with eggs; and the stickleback is a firm believer in the advantages of large families. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.
  • People rarely succeed unless they are believers of positive values and good habits. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • According to Anthony Kenny, you can tell whether a philosophy of religion specialist is a believer or not by their neckwear.
  • October 19th, 2009 8: 50am phil, kaffir is nonbeliever the muslims call this to non muslims and it is Arabic, Kaffir, Kufri it doesn't really matter which way you want to say, they call this to Christians if they are white black or yellow, Jewish, Hindu, Chinese, it is not limited to black Africans like South African Christians it is nothing to do with Africans or black because you can't call a muslim African from Nigeria to Kaffir it doesn't make sense steve On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • But I should add that I’m a big believer in teaching children and anyone who’s just learning to write in English slavish adherence to grammatical rules. The Volokh Conspiracy » Kids These Days
  • I loved the late Robert Anton Wilson's use of the term "reality tunnel" and am a big believer that we are all programmed into one or another worldview, but that continual deliberate exposure to ideas outside your bandwidth is the best counter agent against this there is. MIND MELD: SF with an Opposing Viewpoint
  • The aim was to bring the ordinary believer closer to the church, and incidentally raising its effectiveness for the tsar as an agency for controlling society.
  • `What I'm saying is that my Catholicism, though I'm a true believer, doesn't permeate the whole of my life. OUT OF THE ASHES
  • His combustible persona waxed hot against those he saw as enemies of righteousness and justice, attracting true believers to its incandescence.
  • Believers have declared that this is a prophecy of the Great Fire of London, which is also said to have been foretold by Nostradamus and other seers.
  • True believers can even take encouragement from the meagreness of so much of the action in Coimbra.
  • Believer in purification through water (as a mystic rite), and not through sacrifice by fire. Psalms of the Sisters
  • Thus Ash Wednesday helps worshiping believers confront our sinful nature as we recall our mortality.
  • Young believers in the Fascist revolution began to turn towards Communism as an alternative.
  • I boiled the poaching liquid down by maybe half, with the addition of the rest of the lemon juice and some more shallots (and parsley -- I'm a big believer in parsley), and some pepper, and poured it over the roe, which I had laid on salad plates against some bagged mesculun. Shad Feast
  • The unbelievers continue to carp about suffering and evil, and why an omnipotent, benevolent God allowed these to exist and even proliferate.
  • Paul thought that a believer could divorce and remarry if the unbelieving partner called an end to the marriage.
  • On the other hand, Jesus points out that if believers faithfully practice almsgiving, prayer, and fasting then an unstated heavenly reward awaits them.
  • In a televised session, extremist members of Parliament labeled Mr. Hasid a "disbeliever". The Jawa Report
  • They are believers in integrated transport links using trains, buses, trolleybuses and trams to increase passenger usage.
  • As a libertarian and strong believer of individual rights and free markets, I often get "accosted" by folks saying that I must want the environment just to go to hell. Coyote Blog » 2004 » October
  • I would agree that pretty much the only places you can find doctrinaire believers in Marxism these days in the First World are on campuses. MRV update, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Although Foreign Minister John Baird last week slammed China for what he called "abhorrent acts" against religious believers, both Houlden and Woo said the attack would not cause China inordinate grief. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • For closed-set believers, how one defines the boundary is crucial.
  • We should pray for Christian believers there, as they witness to their trust and confidence in the Lord Jesus Christ in the midst of such a tragedy.
  • Piety could be no excuse for neglecting the demands of a Machtpolitik whose victories might even be presented to believers as reflecting the higher will of God. An Introductory Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
  • However, believers should not again be lulled into a false sense of security.
  • I am a firm believer that relatives should try to comply with the wishes of their loved ones.
  • I am a firm believer that kids nowadays are too involved in organised activities, meaning activities organised by adults.
  • When he explained to The Believer magazine that the travel demands were too much, the interviewer asked, "So the post has an august reputation, but to actually be sitting in the office is a kind of harried, exhausting and distracting experience? The Reluctant Poet Laureate
  • In due course the degree of conviction required of the believer became the subject of theological debate.
  • Essentially, Camping's message turned into overt manipulation through the elicitation of a fear response in the potential believer. Shira Hirschman Weiss: Rapt By The Rapture: Thoughts On Reponses To Religious Figures
  • The criticism that atheists are less moral and honest has been disproved by study after study. Atheists believe that morality is man-made, and follow their moral ideas which are more or less compatible with those of religious believers. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • (Granted, there are many other strands in the tapestry of religion, and granted, I've entirely overlooked the polytheistic and nontheistic religions, such as Hinduism and some forms of Buddhism, but in that short list above, we encompass more than half the world's population, and well over half its believers.) Clay Farris Naff: Can Evolution Tell Us What God Wants?
  • Just as this ill-fated man appeared at the culminating point of his professional fortunes, he had the imprudence to proclaim himself not only an enthusiastic advocate of mesmerism as a curative process, but an ardent believer of the reality of somnambular clairvoyance as an invaluable gift of certain privileged organizations. A Strange Story — Complete
  • Most especially Luther disputed the sale of indulgences whereby, as Luther perceived, believers might buy forgiveness for themselves or their departed relatives.
  • “baptism” here in its authorized acceptation, which is the immersion of the body of a believer in water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, by a properly authorized administrator of the ordinance. Life and Labors of Elder John Kline the Martyr Missionary
  • Now the pastor of an alternative church in Brooklyn, N.Y., Jay Bakker's new book, "Fall to Grace" probes the power of God's grace to "revolutionize" believers' relationships with God, each other and larger society. Exploring Christian LGBT Issues With Jay Bakker
  • As a result increasing numbers of churches intentionally observe the ordinances only at times (such as a midweek gathering) when few unbelievers are expected.
  • Cricket, in fact, is so pervasive and powerful some non-believers (yes, these deviants also exist) complain that we are a country only of cricket and more cricket.
  • One hundred years ago both our countries were firmly under the rule of believers.
  • Evelyn was a firm believer that sleepovers could fix anything.
  • A bimetallist and a believer in the quantitative theory of money, he originally called for free silver as a means of providing ‘more money’ and an equitable currency system.
  • Liviu was a believer in Maimonides's principle that 'God is the only one we may serve and praise, there are no intermediaries between us and God, " says Marilena Librescu, his widow.
  • The believers apart, even our common beliefs cannot take it lying down the fact that a human life is cloned (not conceived) in vitro fertilisation which is strongly offensive to our long-cherished sentiments. Human Cloning and Its Social Impacts
  • You can blame it on Star Wars (and the pernicious influence of “Fantasy”) if you want, but it goes back to every crappy drive-in B movie, every half-arsed rip-off of The Twilight Zone, every shitty piece of symbolically formulated kipple that came off the production-line broken and useless to all but the true believers, the geeks who loved it all for the lurid glory of its strangeness, however slipshod. Hey, Janet! Have You Got Syfy?
  • A good talker is not necessarily a sincere man. A religious believer is not necessarily a moral person. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • Instead of having a Sunday lecture, the goal of the ritual was to take the minds of the believers out of their daily routine and move their minds and spirits closer to the divine, with the priest acting as intercessor. The Crowd Rose As One | Heretical Ideas Magazine
  • And he smote the air with his fists, and believers trembled with excitement.
  • The bathroom scales are a shrine to which believers turn daily.
  • I did but refresh myself after the fatigue of the action, with the unbeliever, with one humming cup of sack, and was proceeding to lead forth my captive, when, crash after crash, as with wild thunder-dint and levin-fire, down toppled the masonry of an outer tower, (marry beshrew their hands that built it not the firmer!) and blocked up the passage. Ivanhoe
  • The believer still believes that what God decides is acceptable.
  • The persecutions and martyrdoms seemed to have solidified the believers' faith.
  • Nor apparently was a fervid believer in magic; maybe the broom was waiting to be believed in. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
  • The place which the Spoufe was broueht to, • the banqueting houfe, 'or houfe of wine, i.c. of feafting, be - caufe wine is a principal part of feafts; by which we are to un - derftand the order, or means, whereby Chrift: conveys his graces and bleiiings to believers; and there is none of all the. ordinances of the gofpel that may more fitly be called the banqueting or feaft - ixig houfe, than this of the Lord's fupper, which is the great got - pel feail wherewith Chrift entertains his people on earth. Sacramental Meditations and Advices Grounded Upon Scripture Texts: Proper for Communicants, to ...
  • Simultaneously, faith also helps believers deal with present unseen forces that threaten.
  • It resembled a nineteenth-century spiritualist picture, those pale blurs of ectoplasm in which believers detected the forms of the dead. SACRAMENT
  • Fasting certainly bring benefits to physical well - being, but for believers, it is, in the first place, a "therapy" to heal all that prevents them from conformity to the will of God.
  • Put your trust in him and you will not be disappointed in the end, for he has promised to gather you and all believers to himself in heaven. You have his word on it!
  • So, baptism establishes the lay status of a believer by ordaining that person into the lay order.
  • Cathars of southern France it was expressed in the division into the elect (perfecti) and ordinary believers HERESY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
  • These ‘born again’ believers reconstruct their identity in rediscovering religion.
  • Still, ideology scores high marks for the true believers who isolate themselves in a bubble of unreality.
  • If it is the carvings in their pristine charm that captivates the heart of an art lover, certainly it is the power of the deity that pulls the believer.
  • In short, the Middle East sets true believer against true believer with survival as the issue.
  • ‘Everything is blessing to the elect,’ he stated, ‘but nothing is blessing to the impenitent unbeliever outside Christ.’
  • But a congregation of Christian believers are not able to use it and love it as the holy space that it was for generations of their forebears.
  • I felt a pull of emotion, if God was going to show himself to a disbeliever like me, he knew exactly how to do so. Visiting Jesus
  • Many people go through life either being a believer or a non-believer in a religious or spiritual ‘reality’.
  • A reader who goes by the name of Mr. Teachbad offered another video, and, because I am a strong believer in laughing through the pain, I'm posting it below. And now, a tragicomic conversation on 'differentiation'
  • But just as difficult is the fact that the word is freighted with a multimillennia-long train of emotional and intellectual baggage that often derails attempts to engage in informed dialogue about the nature of God, especially between believers and secular people. God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
  • Historically, Psalms have always been sung by believers, beginning in Jewish worship and continuing through that of monastic orders.
  • But when believers are called home to be with Christ there is normally music and congregational singing.
  • Many religious doctrines or beliefs dictate standards of social conduct and responsibility, and require believers to act accordingly.
  • I'm a firm believer that one or two individuals don't make a difference.

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