Quotes about Spirituality
Man has upon him his flesh, which is at once his burden and his temptation. He drags it with him and yields to it. He must watch it, cheek it, repress it, and obey it only at the last extremity. There may be some fault even in this obedience; but the fault thus committed is venial; it is a fall, but a fall on the knees which may terminate in prayer.
— Victor Hugo
One does not cross-examine a saint.
— Victor Hugo
At the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of Heaven fills those who are quitting the light of Earth.
— Victor Hugo
A priest and a philosopher are two different things
— Victor Hugo
Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul.
— Victor Hugo
To love another person is to see the face of God
— Victor Hugo
This is the shade of difference: the door of physicianshould never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.
— 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
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, that is love.
— Victor Hugo
As for him, he took the path which shortens,—the Gospel's.
— Victor Hugo
The book which the reader has under his eye at this moment is, from one end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its intermittences, exceptions and faults, the march from evil to good, from the unjust to the just, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from rottenness to life, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the beginning, the angel at the end." Volume V, Book I, Chapter XX This
— Victor Hugo
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
— Victor Hugo