Quote by Victor Hugo Download Open image ““CHAPTER XII—THE BISHOP WORKS”” — Victor Hugo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“No man can be a good bishop if he loves his title but not his task.” — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“A bishop in Gaul could anoint a novitiate with oil from the olive orchards of Greece, bless the event with wine from the vineyards… — William Rosen Copy Share Image
“I put my hand on a bishop, my would be assassin, and thought of my father's heights when he won, how he galloped around.… — Rion Amilcar Scott Copy Share Image
“the church has unhesitatingly privileged the creed and let the canon fend for itself—” — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Why does the bishop give those confirmed a slight blow on the cheek? To remind them that like Christ and the Apostles, they must… — Leonard Goffiné Copy Share Image
Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church. — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“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.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
