God Quotes by Victor Hugo

Progress is the stride of God.

— Victor Hugo

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

— Victor Hugo

Love is the only future God offers.

— Victor Hugo

God knows better than we do what we need.

— Victor Hugo

What love commences can be finished by God alone.

— Victor Hugo

Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

— Victor Hugo

God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.

— Victor Hugo

God made only water, but man made wine.

— Victor Hugo

God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.

— Victor Hugo

Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!

— Victor Hugo

But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal…

— Victor Hugo

It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.

— Victor Hugo

I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.

— Victor Hugo

The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

— Victor Hugo

“Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no reason for being unjust towards God.”

— Victor Hugo

The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.

— Victor Hugo

“The infinite has being. It is there. If infinity had no self then self would not be. But it is. Therefore it…

— Victor Hugo

Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the…

— Victor Hugo

“Alas! What are all these lives driven willy-nilly? Where are they going? Why are they like this? He who knows the answer…

— Victor Hugo

Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect…

— Victor Hugo

“A creature so beautiful that God would have preferred her to the Virgin and have chosen her for his mother and have…

— Victor Hugo

“Avaj! Šta su sve te sudbine tako gurnute i izmešane? Kuda idu? Zašto su takve? Onaj koji to zna vidi sav mrak.…

— Victor Hugo

God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am…

— Victor Hugo

“God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that…

— Victor Hugo

“the old man raised his finger toward heaven, and said, 'The infinite exists. It is there. If the infinite had no ME,…

— Victor Hugo

Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the…

— Victor Hugo

The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon,…

— Victor Hugo

Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No!…

— Victor Hugo

God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the…

— Victor Hugo

“He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved…

— Victor Hugo

“The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reverie. He…

— Victor Hugo

God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.

— Victor Hugo

God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.

— Victor Hugo

He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.

— Victor Hugo

God is behind everything, but everything hides God.

— Victor Hugo

“What have we to fear, we who believe?”

— Victor Hugo

Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.

— Victor Hugo

“Live and Let live" " To love someone is to see the face of God”

— Victor Hugo

“God must not be judged from appearances. Beneath the gilding of heaven I perceive a poverty-stricken universe. Creation is bankrupt.”

— Victor Hugo

To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I…

— Victor Hugo