Quotes about believer

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Source: The Winner Stands Alone

Source: Discipleship

Source: Asleep

Source: After Dark

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Alchemist

Source: Dune Messiah

Source: Brave New World

Source: Outliers: The Story of Success

Source: Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology

Source: Go Set a Watchman

Source: The Complete Essays

Source: Fear of Flying

Source: House Rules

Source: Shadowfever

As quoted in The Sunday Telegraph, London (1975), and Rebecca West : A Life (1987) by Victoria Glendinning, p. xi

Source: Life, the Universe and Everything

Source: The Throne of Fire

Source: Night

Source: The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Letter to his godson, Thomas Erle Faber (January 1931) as quoted in &quot;T.S. Eliot&#x27;s Private Letters To Faber Publishing Family To Be Sold&quot; at World Collector&#x27;s Net http://www.worldcollectorsnet.com/news/newstories/news736.html (12 August 2005) <br class="br">Source: Four Quartets <br class="br">Context: I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is JELLYORUM and its one Idea is to be Usefull!!

Source: Wall and Piece

Kitchen Confidential (2000)
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Source: Children of the Mind

Source: Things I've Been Silent About: Memories

Source: A Walk to Remember

As quoted in Clarence Darrow for the Defense (1941) by Irving Stone, Ch. 6

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), Ch. 35

Source: The Sun Also Rises

Source: Aleph

Source: He's So Not Worth It

Our Theatres In The Nineties (1930)
1930s

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

Source: The Well of Ascension

Preface, The importance of hell in the salvation scheme
Source: 1910s, Androcles and the Lion (1913)
Context: The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.

The Books in My Life (1952) Preface (2nd edition. New York: New Directions Publishing, 1969, p. 12)

The Callahan Chronicals <!-- [Sic] -->(1996) [originally published as Callahan and Company (1988)] "Backword", p. xii
Context: In a culture where pessimism has metastasized like slow carcinoma, that crazy Irishman was backward enough to try to raise hopes, like hothouse flowers. In an era during which even judicious use of alcohol has been increasingly bad-rapped, the man who came to be known as The Mick of Time was backward enough to think that the world can look just that essential tad better when seen through a flask, brightly. (As long as you let someone else drive you home afterward.) Above all, he — and his goofball customers — believed that shared pain is lessened, and shared Joy increased.
Now he is gone. Gone back whence he came, and we are all the poorer for it. But I refuse to say that we will not see his like again. Or his love again.

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)

Source: Godless: The Church of Liberalism

Source: The Summer Guest

Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat

Variant: I don’t think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we’re seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive

Source: Dream Chaser

Source: The Elementary Particles

Source: Russka: the Novel of Russia

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

Part 1, Ch. 8
Source: The Woman in the Dunes (1962)

Source: The Blood of the Lamb

Source: Handle with Care

Source: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Source: Dubliners

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

Source: Speaker for the Dead

Source: Cryptonomicon

Source: The Sufis

Included as a quotation in The Great Quotations (1977) by George Seldes, p. 35, this appears to be a paraphrase of a summation of arguments of Bruno's speech in a debate at the College of Cambray (25 May 1588) which are not clearly presented as a direct translation of his statements:
: In an inspired speech Bruno, through the interpreter, Jean Hennequin, of Paris, declared the discovery of numberless worlds in the One Infinite Universe. Nothing was more deplorable, declared he, than the habit of blind belief, for of all other things it hinders the mind from recognizing such matters as are in themselves clear and open. It was proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. However, he cautioned that they should not be influenced by the fervor of speech, but by the weight of his argument and the majesty of truth.
:* Coulson Turnbull in Life and Teachings of Giordano Bruno : Philosopher, Martyr, Mystic 1548 — 1600 (1913), p. 41
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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)

Responding to audience questions during a speech in Detroit (1898); as recounted in Living My Life (1931), p. 207; quoted by Annie Laurie Gaylor in Women Without Superstition, p. 382
Context: Ladies and gentlemen, I came here to avoid as much as possible treading on your corns. I had intended to deal only with the basic issue of economics that dictates our lives from the cradle to the grave, regardless of our religion or moral beliefs. I see now that it was a mistake. If one enters a battle, he cannot be squeamish about a few corns. Here, then, are my answers: I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years past been working to undo the botched job your God has made.
As to killing rulers, it depends entirely on the position of the ruler. If it is the Russian Czar, I most certainly believe in dispatching him to where he belongs. If the ruler is as ineffectual as an American President, it is hardly worth the effort. There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth. As for the gentleman who asked if free love would not build more houses of prostitution, my answer is: They will all be empty if the men of the future look like him.

Source: The Wanting Seed

Source: Of Love and Other Demons

Source: The Godfather

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Source: Cold Mountain

Source: The Hunger Games

Source: A Walk to Remember

Source: Shades of Grey