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believer

[ bih-leev-er ]

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noun

someone who has confidence in the truth, existence, or reliability of something:
I am a firm believer that evolution happened the way that evolutionary biologists describe.
The team’s offensive coordinator is a big believer in the run game versus the passing game.
someone who has or professes faith in something, especially a religion:
The church has grown from a handful of believers, meeting in the pastor’s living room, to a congregation now in excess of 1,000.

The next day, Christmas, is the birthday of the savior, but Frank is not a believer.

After Trevor-Roper told me Hitler was a true believer, he thought he was doing good, I went up to Oxford to see Bullock.

She was more of a spiritualist, a New Age believer in the power of good and the mysteries of the universe.

Yet for a pious Muslim believer, the experience of those states was bad to the point of being catastrophic.

One need not be a believer, as I am, to know that Maya Angelou will so fully live on.

Not one-third of mankind are professing Christians to-day, and of those not one in ten is a true Christian and a true believer.

On the part of the believer, his faith and imperfect obedience, though necessary, are not a condition.

In the others, it is that righteousness imputed through grace to each believer.

These however are terms far too feeble to express the affection towards it, which the believer feels.

And as the believer goes on to perform it, his call to the service will wax indefinitely great.

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