Quotes About Divine

Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.

What love commences can be finished by God alone.

Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish.

Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?

Nisi Dominus custodierit domum, in vanum vigilant qui custodiunt eam, Unless the Lord guard the house, in vain do they watch who guard it.

I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?

Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

Our joys have shadows. The perfect smile belongs to God alone.

Just see how idiotic one can be! One reckons without the good God.

Hope is the Word which God has written on the brow of every man.

The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thanking God.

It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?

exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul.

Is there not in every human soul, was there not in the soul of Jean Valjean in particular, a first spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in the other, which good can develop, fan, ignite, and make to glow with splendor, and which evil can never wholly extinguish?

Adorable ambuscades of providence!

It was a garbage heap, and it was Sinai.

If we ever feel the need to follow something, let it be our own Divine intuition.

and after all in this house what have we to fear? There is always someone with us who is stronger. The devil may visit us, but God lives here.

What is the cat? he exclaimed. It is a corrective. The good God, having made the mouse, said: 'Hullo! I have committed a blunder.' And so he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, is the proof of creation revised and corrected.

To place the infinity here below in contact, by the medium of thought, with the infinity on high, is called praying.

God's whole policy consists in rendering slopes less steep.

I did not think that it was so monstrous. It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?

L'amour, c'est la bêtise de l'homme et l'esprit de Dieu.

The presence of angels is an announcement of Paradise.