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God Quotes by Victor Hugo

41 God quotes by Victor Hugo

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Seeing the face of God in a loved one captures Hugo’s idea that love reveals the divine. He also writes that God knows our needs better than we do, and that the universe and human thought are expressions of God’s presence. The contrast with the devil highlights the choice between true beauty and mere prettiness.

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Progress is the stride of God.

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

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Love is the only future God offers.

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God knows better than we do what we need.

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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

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What love commences can be finished by God alone.

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

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God made only water, but man made wine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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God is behind everything, but everything hides God.

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

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Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.

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

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

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

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Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.”

He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her…

“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.”

Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to…

The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear…

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green…

“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled”

“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary…

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

“Our joys have shadows. The perfect smile belongs to God alone.”

“When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.”

Love is a fault; so be it.