1. theist - Noun
2. theist - Adjective
One who believes in the existence of a God; especially, one who believes in a personal God; -- opposed to atheist.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances. Joseph McCabe
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it. Sri Aurobindo
It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist & an evolutionist. ... I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God. Charles Darwin
As a theist I believe that God exists and that God creates. Phillip E. Johnson
Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name. Samuel Butler (novelist)
Theist or atheist, monist or anarchist must all admit that society and science are equally interested with theology in deciding whether the Universe is one or many, a harmony or a discord. Henry Adams