believer

be a firm believer in (something)

To have a strong conviction that something (stated after "in") is important or worthwhile. I'm a firm believer in resting on the weekends so that I don't get burned out.
See also: believer, firm

be a great believer in (something)

To have a strong conviction that something (stated after "in") is important or worthwhile. I'm a strong believer in resting on the weekends so that I don't get burned out.
See also: believer, great

make a believer (out) of (one)

To convince or persuade one to believe or have faith in someone or something. I was really skeptical of his supposed breakthrough, but the demonstration he gave us made a believer of me. Their absolute dominance in the first game of the tournament made believers out of the entire city—now everyone is throwing their support behind the home team!
See also: believer, make, of

true believer

One who passionately supports a cause or concept. My sister is a true believer in social equality, so she is out at the protest today.
See also: believer, true
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

make a believer (out) of someone

to convince someone decisively about something. The game they played made a believer out of me; from now on, I'm betting on them. It was an interesting discussion, but it did not make a believer out of me.
See also: believer, make, of
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

be a great/firm believer in something

believe strongly that something is good, important or valuable: My mother was a great believer in horoscopes all her life. The boss was a firm believer in developing strong teamwork.
See also: believer, firm, great, something
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • be a great/firm believer in something
  • be a firm believer in (something)
  • be a great believer in (something)
  • true believer
  • lay (someone or something) alongside (someone or something)
  • lay alongside
  • sneeze at
  • sneeze at (someone or something).
  • sniff at
  • sniff at (someone or something).
References in periodicals archive
Believers are expected to disassociate and distinguish themselves from those who sit and ridicule religion, through unwarranted discussions.
Believers: Their signs and quality - 12
Since no one, I repeat no one, takes everything in either book completely literally, no matter what they claim to do, what believers choose to use is their responsibility.
It's dangerous to argue that religion is responsible
observes that in introductory courses on the OT, "the goals are to read texts in their original historical contexts and to determine as closely as possible the author's original intention and how the original audience would have understood the text" (167); the issue that then arises is how the biblical text can be seen as having significance today, how it can speak "religiously" to believers today after such an analysis.
The Bible and the Believer: How to Read the Bible Critically and Religiously
The careful biblical interpretation in these essays should fruitfully engage readers from a variety of believers church groups.
New Perspectives in Believers Church Ecclesiology
This is the most difficult type of VTB to identify, and, at first, interviewers may misidentify them as another type, such as an opportunistic true believer. Investigators must remain wary of these individuals' manipulations to betray them.
Violent true believers
Perhaps Wittgenstein considered this practice as "disgusting" because of the way in which the believer went about distributing Holy Communion to the soldiers.
Why must there be something (or anything) at all? Wittgenstein, philosophy, and religious belief
Ecclesiologically, Clarke's theology of believer's baptism expressed not only church discipline, but also the voluntary nature of the visible church.
The betwixt and between baptismal theology of Baptists in Colonial America
"I will continue to compete Believer and will try to qualify again for next year.
Great result for veteran at contest
The scripture in the New Testament has instructions for the believer and hence the church.
Obedient to Christ
The Old Believers appeared in the seventeenth century, in what was, for Russia, a new period of political centralization.
Schism and Russia's Old Believers
The church is the Body of Christ and brings persons and nations to faith and obedience as it proclaims the gospel effectively in every people and incorporates believers from every people into ongoing churches (1) In order to evangelize effectively, what strategies are needed?
Evangelism and church growth: research on non-believers for developing an evangelizing strategy in the Korean context and the Diamond Evangelistic System *
Point #2: There is a direct link between the temporality of theological proclamation and the identity of the believer. If I am never finished or complete in my proclamation of God, I am never complete or stable in my identity as a believer.
Further footnotes on Judaism, Yoder and Boyarin
Malton trainer John Quinn hopes to be double-handed with Fantasy Believer and Zomerlust in the William Hill Great St Wilfrid Stakes at Ripon on Saturday.
Quinn happy
I'm a longtime believer in the subject of "peak oil" having watched production decline dramatically since the early 1990s (I have lived in the Arabian Peninsula since the late 1970s).
Oily business