Quotes About God

Reeking blood, overcrowded cemeteries, weeping mothers—these are formidable plaintiffs. When the earth is suffering from a surcharge, there are mysterious moanings from the deeps that the heavens hear. Napoleon had been impeached before the Infinite, and his fall was decreed. He annoyed God. Waterloo is not a battle; it is the changing face of the universe.

Sire! do not break out into thunder over such a nonentity as myself. God's great thunderbolts are not for bombarding lettuces.

Sleep in Peace, God is awake.

Death belongs only to God. By what right to men tamper with a thing so unknowable?

This is because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he shall be innocent.

Ninguém poderá impedir o pensamento de voltar a uma ideia, como não podemos impedir o mar de voltar sempre a uma praia. Para o marinheiro isso se chama maré; para o culpado isso se chama remorso. Deus agita a alma como agita o oceano.

From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

This took place in the depths of a forest, at night, in winter, far from all human sight; she was a child of eight: no one but God saw that sad thing at the moment. And her mother, no doubt, alas! For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves.

One can no more prevent the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. In the case of the sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty, its is called remorse. God upheaves the soul as well as the ocean.

Happy, even in the midst of anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and of unhappiness! He who has not viewed the things of this world and the heart of man under this double light has seen nothing and knows nothing of the true.

Jean Valjean felt his heart melt within him with delight, at all these sparks of a tenderness so exclusive, so wholly satisfied with himself alone. The poor man trembled, inundated with angelic joy; he declared to himself ecstatically that this would last all their lives; he told himself that he really had not suffered sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted him to be loved thus, he, a wretch, by that innocent being.

The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, that is love.

God can add nothing to the happiness of those who love, except to give them endless duration.

Por desgracia Dios les da aire a los hombres, pero la ley de lo vende. No acuso a la ley pero bendigo a Dios

Because things are unpleasant, said Jean Valjean, that is no reason for being unjust toward God.

God must not be judged from appearances. Beneath the gilding of heaven I perceive a poverty-stricken universe. Creation is bankrupt.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

Saint Augustine: 'Place your expectations in Him to whom there is no succession!

Through a religion you see the solar spectre of God, but not God.

Good night! Good night! Far flies the light; But still God's love Shall flame above, Making all bright. Good night! Good night! Amen.

God will reward you, he said. You must be an angel since you care for flowers. I'm no angel, she replied. I'm the devil, but it's all the same to me.

Dumnezeu nu poate d?rui fericirii celor care se iubesc decât o durat? f?r? cap?t. Dup? o via?? de dragoste, o eternitate de dragoste, da, e o întregire. Dar nici lui Dumnezeu nu-i e cu putin?? s? fac? ceva mai mare decât fericirea des?vârÈ™it? pe care o d? sufletului iubirea. Dumnezeu e împlinirea în cer. Dragostea e împlinirea omului.

Finally, he said to himself that it was a necessity, that his destiny was so fixed, that it was not for him to derange the arrangements of God, that at all events he must choose, either virtue without, and abomination within, or sanctity within, and infamy without.