Quotes about Divine
The presence of angels is an announcement of Paradise.
— Victor Hugo
Death belongs only to God. What right have men to lay hands on a thing so unknown?
— Victor Hugo
Did not i say that things would come right of themselves? said the Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, To him who contents himself with the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop. Monseigneur, murmured the cure, throwing back his head with a smile. God or the Devil.
— Victor Hugo
Sleep in Peace, God is awake.
— Victor Hugo
God is behind all things, but all things conceal God. Objects are black and humans are opaque. To love a person is to render them transparent
— Victor Hugo
Isn't there in every human soul...an initial spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in the next, that good can bring out, prime, ignite, set on fire and cause to blaze splendidly, and that evil can never extinguish?
— Victor Hugo
Death belongs only to God. By what right to men tamper with a thing so unknowable?
— Victor Hugo
God was as visible in this affair as was Jean Valjean. God has his instruments. He makes use of the tool which he wills. He is not responsible to men.
— Victor Hugo
Let us have compassion on the chastised. Alas! Who are we ourselves? Who am I who now address you? Who are you who are listening to me? And are you very sure that we have done nothing before we were born? The earth is not devoid of resemblance to a jail. Who knows whether man is not a recaptured offender against divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so made, that everywhere we feel the sense of punishment.
— Victor Hugo
Saint Augustine: 'Place your expectations in Him to whom there is no succession!
— Victor Hugo
I do not understand how God, the father of men, can torture his children and his grandchildren, and hear them cry without being tortured himself.
— Victor Hugo
The devil may visit us, but God lives here.
— Victor Hugo