Quotes about Grace
Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I buy from you; I withdraw it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.
— Victor Hugo
Yes, resumed the Bishop, you have come from a very sad place. Listen. There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men. If you emerge from that sad place with thoughts of hatred and of wrath against mankind, you are deserving of pity; if you emerge with thoughts of good-will and of peace, you are more worthy than any one of us.
— Victor Hugo
God decreed that the love which came to Cosette was a love that saves.
— Victor Hugo
Adorable ambuscades of providence!
— Victor Hugo
There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.
— Victor Hugo
It was like a hand which had opened and thrown suddenly upon her a handful of sunbeams.
— 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
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
— Victor Hugo
How goodness heightens beauty!
— Milan Kundera
None but the brave and beautiful can love.
— Philip James Bailey
I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
— Philip Yancey
Our first experience of God is so important, we either experience Him as the police guard that wants to punish or as Creative Love that awaits.
— Pope Benedict XVI