#god

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. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#elevates #god #limits #man #narrow

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#god #like #no reason #reason #things

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#bear #does #fruit #god #grow

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#desires #destroy #destruction #ends #entrusts

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

— Victor Hugo

#every #every man #god #hope #man

Conscience is God present in man. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#god #man #present

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#verb #word

To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#cases #god #itself #striving #think

Only God can look at somebody's heart. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#heart #look #only #somebody

Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones. ↗

— Kathryn Hulme

#friends #god #his #lukewarm #more