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believer

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One who believes; one who is persuaded of the truth or reality of some doctrine, person, or thing.

One who gives credit to the truth of the Scriptures, as a revelation from God; a Christian; -- in a more restricted sense, one who receives Christ as his Savior, and accepts the way of salvation unfolded in the gospel.

One who was admitted to all the rights of divine worship and instructed in all the mysteries of the Christian religion, in distinction from a catechumen, or one yet under instruction.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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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. George Bernard Shaw

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe. Franz Kafka

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Stephen Leacock

The believer is happy; the doubter is wise. Hungarian Proverb

A believer can't be spiteful. Algerian Proverb

To be an ancestral believer is to be a good ancestor. African Proverb

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