Quotes About Faith

Abbi cura di tutto! Me ne renderai conto laggiù", dimostrando con quest'ultima parola che il cristianesimo deve essere la religione degli avari.

La bohème n'a rien et vit de ce qu'elle a. L'Espérance est sa religion, la Foi en soi-même est son code, la Charité passe pour être son budget. Tous ces jeunes gens sont plus grands que leur malheur, au-dessous de la fortune, mais au-dessus du destin.

So compose yourself; do not exaggerate your misfortune. A priest whose hair has grown white in the exercise of his functions is not a boy; you will be understood by him to whom every passion has been confided for nearly fifty years now, and who weighs in his hands the ponderous heart of kings and princes. If he is stern under his stole, in the presence of your flowers he will be as tender as they are, and as indulgent as his Divine Master.

You are mistaken there, my dear child," said Madame de Godollo. "Pascal, who was himself a great example of the falseness of your point of view, says, if I am not mistaken, that a little science draws us from religion, but a great deal draws us back to it.

Pascal said that "the doubt of God implies belief in God.

The two priests, the chorister, and the beadle came, and said and did as much as could be expected for seventy francs in an age when religion cannot afford to say prayers for nothing.

N'était-ce pas le seul dieu moderne auquel on ait foi, l'Argent dans toute sa puissance, exprimé par une seule physionomie ? Les doux sentiments de la vie n'occupaient là qu'une place secondaire, ils animaient trois cœurs purs, ceux de Nanon, d'Eugénie et sa mère. Encore, combien d'ignorance dans leur naïveté !

You are like the peasant," said Sallenauve, laughing, "who, expecting the end of the world, did not sow his wheat.

Les erreurs de la femme viennent presque toujours de sa croyance au bien, ou dans sa confiance dans le vrai

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to

And give up the white man's god—his ugly god, his lying god, his torturous god, his thieving god, his tricking god, and rebuke his missionaries who had one set of rules for white Christians and another for Christians among the people, and who, when asked, talked crossways, so that one word followed the next down a line leading to a place where buzzards roosted and called out beaked noise.

The problem of eternal beatitude is one of those whose solution is known only to God. Here, below, the sublimest poets have simply harassed their readers when attempting to picture paradise.

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

I was never the ingenue, so hopefully that'll make it easier to age and still work. I know a lot of actors who are really dissatisfied with where they're at even though some of them are huge stars and I feel like, 'Oh, my God, you're at the top.' Something interesting will come. It always does. I have faith.

and so convinced are we that each mood while it lasts will be the permanent temper of our soul

And the real anchor is not hope but faith — even if it be only somebody else's faith.

Patience makes lighter what sorrow may not heal.

Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?

A grudging and infrequent worshipper of the gods.

Never despair.

Leave all else to the gods.

As long as we abide in Christ, our action is from Him, not from our own corrupt and broken nature.

Jesus is the true manifestation of God, and He is manifested to be the regenerating power of a divine life.