If the Buddhist tradition quoted extols and consecrates the descent and usurpation of Chandragupta, this must be rather due to the services his grandson rendered the believers in Buddha than to any merits of his own in that respect.
The believers in Buddha travelled to Kapilavastu, his father's city.
The Prince of True Believers said moreover to Khwajah Hasan al-Habbal, "Go now and tell thy tale to my treasurer that he may take it down in writing for an everlasting memorial, and place the writ in the treasury together with the diamond.
More-over the Prince of True Believers embraced the boy, and ordered that the Wazir give him a thousand pieces of gold from the royal treasury and conduct him safely to his home and parents.
At last the Prince of True Believerscast his glance upon Ja'afar, but forthright turned away his head and sat motionless as before.
Notwithstanding the other positive declarations made by the Saviour of mankind, which assert the eternal damnation of all who do not belong to our church, Origen and some others were not believers in the eternity of punishments.
In the council of the Christian church, on the other hand, with reference to all important questions, the membership of all believers is called together for consultation and deliverance (Acts vi.
The church is, further, in need of a form of public worship as a necessary expression of the feelings and emotions of believers toward their Lord and God, as a means of edification and instruction.
Then the small, forsaken company of Nicene believersin Constantinople called him to be their pastor.
The penance of believers whose venial sins (peccata venialia) occasioned by the universal sinfulness of human nature obtain forgiveness in daily prayer.
It was amusing to think that, in this little company of three devout believers in the "internal oracle," no two thought alike!
Even with my ideas of the average honor of the believers in superstition, the average truthfulness of the disciples of fear, I did not believe that all those infamies rested solely upon poorly-attested falsehoods.
It seems probable that all real, genuine orthodox believers who kill themselves must be insane, and to such a degree that their belief is forgotten, "God" and hell are out of their minds.
He claimed that the bible authorized slavery, and that many devoted believers in that book had turned the cross of Christ into a whipping post.
A belief in the eternal agony beyond the grave will cause such believers to suffer the pangs of this life.
The believers in a God of love--an infinite father--punished hundreds of offenses with torture and death.
The believers in the bible are loud in their denunciation of what they are pleased to call the immoral literature of the world; and yet few books have been published containing more moral filth than this inspired word of God.
As for the discussions about circumcision, it does not at all appear that the Apostles themselves were divided in their opinions about it; the difficulty seems to have been started by those believers who had been Pharisees.
What knowledge have some believers of the deep things of God!
He himself does not make use of his gift for the assemblies of believers (vv.
In the first Epistle to the believersin Thessalonica, Paul had made it specially prominent that his Gospel had worked there, not as mere word, but with demonstration of the power of the Holy Spirit (i.
Millions have for centuries devoutly held their tenets, and to this day the followers of Sakya Muni are as numerous as the believers in the religion of Paul.
They style themselves the "United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing.
The believers in pretended miracles have always previouslysymbolized with the performers of them.
Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to believers but to unbelievers: but prophecies, not to unbelievers but to believers.
And the multitude of believers had but one heart and one soul.
Pope means that the ignorant Indian had no conception of a heaven reserved for the just such as Greek sages and Christian believers have.
But if the captives were true believers the Moslem was ordered to marry not to keep them.
That other term designates Christian believers as devoted persons, claimed by God for His own;[125] it signifies holiness as a calling.
And they "are fellow-partakers of the promise"--receiving upon a footing of equal privilege with Jewish believers the gift of the Spirit and the blessings promised to Israel in the Messianic kingdom.
Adoption was a peculiar institution of Roman law, familiar to Paul as a citizen of Rome; and it aptly describes to Gentile believers their relation to the family of God.
Christian believers at that time were of this childish sort, and were being so distracted and misled.
Believers in Christ represent a communion which in principle embraces all men.
The success of the gospel in Asia gave encouragement to believers in Christ everywhere.
The experience of how many Christian believers begins and ends there.
Not blood and flesh, but the mind and spirit of the Asian believers will bear the brunt of the attack that the craft of the devil is preparing for the apostolic Church.
Thus the Church of believers in the Son of God constitutes the "family on earth named" from the same Father who gave His name to the holy angels, our wise and strong and brilliant elder brothers.
Among the Arab rulers in Spain, there were not a few as eager as their co-believers in eastern Islam to learn all that the civilized world could teach in art and science.
Old Spanish authorities assert that it was in the very year when believers throughout Christendom were anxiously expecting the end of the world that the Moslem infidels began to build their huge monument.
My wish is, also, that I may have a pleasant grave for my body when I die," meaning that he might be with believers in their burying ground.
Miss Martineau ceased to believe in immortality; and immediately allbelievers in immortality became, to her mind, selfish or stupid, or both.
The least firm believers have often been the most violent persecutors.
Br[=a]hmas or theists, believers in Brahma, are a religious body that originated in Bengal in the nineteenth century.
Another presumption supposes the girls believers in their own powers.
Others as passionately reproached their accusers, but all were confounded, because all were believers in the fact of witchcraft.
They drove the believers from their homes and out of the land.
It was there he gathered the believers in his teachings, baptized them in the waters of Mormon, and organized the Church of Jesus Christ.
To thebelievers in the Book of Mormon the mystery stands revealed.
Near by was a thicket or forest of small trees, in which the gospelbelievers could hide should they be pursued by the king's servants; here also was a fountain of pure water, most excellently adapted for the purposes of baptism.
The one was specially prepared by the Lord for Lehi and his companions, and was used through faith only; the other can be used by all men, whether believers in the true God, pagans or infidels.
These are the three Nephites of whom we sometimes hear and who either singly or together have appeared to believers in this generation.
In later years the traitorous Amlicites, the apostate Amalekites, the blood-thirsty Amulonites and Ammonihahites, were all believers in his soul-destroying doctrines.
How far the mysterious efficacy of the royal touch affected my after career believers in the divine rights and spiritual powers of a king may speculate as they please.
Believers in this cause are legion, but many, satisfied that victory will come without their help, do nothing.
I know that the great number of our believers are far from wealthy; yet I know that there is wealth enough in our ranks, if it were but devoted to it, to give an instant and resistless influence to the cause.
They are Bible believers in somewhat liberal style.
Christ prayed that all believers might be one, even as he and the Father are one.
The abolishment of exclusiveness is involved in the love-relation required between all believers by the express injunction of Christ and the apostles, and by the whole tenor of the New Testament.
Gradually a little school of believers gathered around him.
He did not expect young believers to get faith all at once; although some got it faster than others.
They are Bible-believers according to their explanations.
True believers from the surrounding country bring their dead to this sacred spot, and to disturb a grave on Nebbi Yunus would cause a tumult which might lead to no agreeable results.
A small grated window looks into the hall, where the true believers assemble for prayer.
Its Stem is the Church of the Old Testament, which coincided, in the matter of external privilege, with the nation of Israel, and to which at least the immense majority of true believers in the elder time belonged.
At Rome also lived otherbelievers personally known to Paul, drawn by unrecorded circumstances to the Centre of the world.
Not all believers fail in the first hours of their faith to realize, and to use, the fulness of what the Covenant gives them.
The latter, it is true, pronounces Papias very limited in his comprehension; [111] but has not the same thing been said many times of the disciples by believers in the gospel Jesus?
The trouble began with the attempts of the believers to solve their own difficulties.
Both father and son cherished some good intentions; both were sincere believers in their narrow theory of kingcraft.
The value of the Bible lay not so much in the literal truth of its texts as in their spiritual import; and by the union of believers with Christ they came to share in the ineffable perfection of the Godhead.
The Puritan ideal of a commonwealth composed of a united body of believers was broken down, never again to be restored.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "believers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
