More than ever I look forward to that day -- not just because of the wonders I know heaven holds in store for me and every believer but because I know that all the burdens and sorrows that press down upon me at this stage of my life will be over.
In these and other ways, they care for each other as every believer should".
The prayer, he said, "seemed ideal for a new cardinal" and for every other believer of the Christian faith.
This and other satiric images suggest that for every true believer there was a skeptic ready to pounce on the goofy excesses of imagination to which visionaries are prone.
For every crushed Sox believer, there was a Tampa Bay Rays fan rejoicing over his improbable good fortune; for every gutted Atlanta Braves follower — that team having also engineered an improbable late-season meltdown — a St . LouisCardinals fan is still whooping into the night.
"For non-believers, please believe in God.
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For the believer, however, God plays a substantive role.
Spiritual voyages are built into every religion and, for most believers, Saoirse's faith - that he will be looked after, that it will turn out OK, that this is a good thing to do for humanity - is not odd at all.
