God Quote by Alexandre Dumas — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.”

“How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it”

“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”

“Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.”

“Il y a les sachants et les savants: c'est la mémoire qui fait les uns, c'est la philosophie qui fait les autres. La philosophie ne s'apprend pas; la philosophie est la réunion des sciences acquises au génie qui les applique.”

“I began a poem in lines of one syllable. It's rather difficult, but the merit of all things lies in their difficulty. The subject matter is gallant. I'll read you the first canto; it's four hundred verses long and takes one minute.”

“Mr. Frimpong is the oldest person from church. That's when I knew why he sings louder than anybody else: it's because he's been waiting the longest for God to answer. He thinks God has forgotten him. I only knew it then. Then I loved him but it was too late to go back.”

“The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.”

“Ruttie’s suicide would be hidden for many years and only those in the Jinnahs’ inner circle were told the truth. Yet as Sarojini Naidu wrote to her daughter Padmaja:”

“George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.”

“We are—all of us—the agents of God, bringing order to a universe that favors entropy. Our souls are borrowed from Him; our will is ultimately His will, but it has been divided into countless fragments and is executed from countless perspectives.”