Religion Quotes by Victor Hugo

A library implies an act of faith.

— Victor Hugo

“Sin is a gravitation.”

— Victor Hugo

No religion but blasphemes a little.

— Victor Hugo

We are for religion against the religions.

— Victor Hugo

Toleration is the best religion.

— Victor Hugo

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

— Victor Hugo

I am for religion, against religions.

— Victor Hugo

I am religiosly opposed to religion

— Victor Hugo

“His mind could do without faith, but his heart could not do without friendship.”

— Victor Hugo

A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.

— Victor Hugo

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

— Victor Hugo

“The devotion of one man had given strength and courage to all.”

— Victor Hugo

Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

— Victor Hugo

“Faith is necessary to men; woe to him who believes in nothing!”

— Victor Hugo

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king…

— Victor Hugo

We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy…

— Victor Hugo

Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.

— Victor Hugo

I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

— Victor Hugo

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.

— Victor Hugo

“The modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India for its vehicle; Alexander upon the elephant.”

— Victor Hugo

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates…

— Victor Hugo

“We blame the church when she is saturated with intrigues, we despise the spiritual which is harsh toward the temporal; but we…

— Victor Hugo

“The poor priest went to his poor mountaineers with empty hands, and he returns from them with his hands full. I set…

— Victor Hugo

Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and…

— Victor Hugo

The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all…

— Victor Hugo

“He believed that faith gives health. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing by pointing out the Man of Resignation, and…

— Victor Hugo

“Exile is not a material thing, it is a spiritual thing. All corners of the earth are exactly the same. And anywhere…

— Victor Hugo

“In our nineteenth century the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. Certain things have been unlearnt, and this is good, provided other…

— 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

When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so…

— Victor Hugo

“So bring me this man, trembling and shivering from head to foot; let me fall into his arms or down at his…

— Victor Hugo

“We, who do not believe what these women believe, but who, like them, live by faith,—we have never been able to think…

— Victor Hugo

“Sometimes, if the two old women were not asleep, they heard him pacing slowly along the walks at a very advanced hour…

— Victor Hugo

“To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to prostrating ourselves before the…

— Victor Hugo

“Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then, there will be nothing more like the history…

— Victor Hugo

“As we have seen, prayer, celebration of the religious offices, alms, consoling the afflicted, the cultivation of a little piece of ground,…

— Victor Hugo

There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook,…

— Victor Hugo

“Citizens, the nineteenth century is grand, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then there will be nothing more like old history.…

— Victor Hugo