Victor Hugo

One can resist the invasion of an army, but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

I’ve been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you’ve been up on the mountain, now you go down. You’re on your own, free. Check in later, but now you’re on your own.

The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure.

Before enlightnment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightnment, chop wood, carry water.

God is a loving god.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

I would like to believe there is a God, but I think it is better to say I’m not sure there is a God and live your life with kindness and respect for people than to say I know there is a God and then do bad things,

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, ‘How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.

If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.

Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s?

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

It was the schoolboy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflections. The water has no mind to receive their images.