Quotes About Faith

Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.

Ask the gods nothing excessive.

God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

God always strives together with those who strive.

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.

Exiles feed on hope.

When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in.

I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death

It's not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth

However long the night, the dawn will break.

God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.

And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

One always has hope for human nature

Really, my friend! But I will not sit back and say 'le bon Dieu has arranged everything, I will not interfere.' Because I am convinced that le bon Dieu created Hercule Poirot for the express purpose of interfering. It is my métier.

She looked at them with shining eyes. Her chin went up. She said: "You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!" The judge stroked his chin. He murmured in a slightly ironic voice: "My dear lady, in my experience of ill-doing, Providence leaves the work of conviction and chastisement to us mortals-and the process is often fraught with difficulties. There are no short cuts.

Everything is possible, isn't it? The world soon teaches one that!