Quotes about Spirituality
To speak out aloud when alone is as it were to have a dialogue with the divinity which is within.
— Victor Hugo
Clearly, he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the Gospels.
— 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
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
The infinite has being. It is there. If infinity had no self then self would not be. But it is. Therefore it has a self. The self of infinity is God.
— Victor Hugo
This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.
— Victor Hugo
Quant au mode de prier, peu importe le nom, pourvu qu'il soit sincère. Tournez votre livre à l'envers et soyez à l'infini As for how you pray, the words do not matter if they are sincere. Turn your prayer book upside down and face the infinite.
— Victor Hugo
The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thanking God.
— Victor Hugo
To love your neighbors is to see the face of God. - Les Miserables
— Victor Hugo
the old man raised his finger toward heaven, and said, 'The infinite exists. It is there. If the infinite had no ME, the ME would be its limit; it would not be the infinite; in other words, it would not be. But it is. Then it has a ME. This ME of the infinite is God.
— Victor Hugo
The infinite is. He is there. If the infinite had no person, person would be without limit; it would not be infinite; in other words, it would not exist. There is, then, an I. That I of the infinite is God.
— Victor Hugo
A reflection from this heaven shone upon the bishop. But it was also a luminous transparency, for this heaven was within him: this heaven was his conscience.
— Victor Hugo