José Rizal - God Quotes

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No one has a monopoly of the true God, nor is there a nation or religion that can claim, or at any rate prove, that it has been given the exclusive right to the Creator or sole knowledge of His Being.

José Rizal

I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors;
Where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.

José Rizal

In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse and blame the Germans for it.

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Friar! What a strange name. I don't remember having created such a thing! (God speaking to the angel Gabriel)

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God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them, and the stars to guide them even in darkest night.

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No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light.

José Rizal

To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.

José Rizal