Victor Hugo Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said of it, the French Revolution was the greatest step forward by mankind since the coming of Christ. It was unfinished, I agree, but still it was sublime. It released the untapped springs of society; it softened hearts, appeased, tranquilized, enlightened, and set flowing through the world the tides of civilization. It was good. The French Revolution was the anointing of humanity.

  Victor Hugo

  Spring, Heart, Civilization

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

• O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.

  Victor Hugo

  Angel, Night, Sky

• A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

  Victor Hugo

  Jesus, Light, Two

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

• The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.

  Victor Hugo

  Jesus, Law, Doe

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.126, Wordsworth Editions

• The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple.

  Victor Hugo

  Simple, Doctors, Oil

• If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas.

  Victor Hugo

  Jesus, Christ, Pardon

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