José Rizal: Quotes about God

José Rizal was Filipino writer, ophthalmologist, polyglot and nationalist. Explore interesting quotes on god.
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“Believing in accidents is like believing in miracles--both presuppose that God does not know the future.”

José Rizal

Noli me Tangere

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

José Rizal

"Mi Ultimo Adios" st. 13 - poem written on the eve of his execution (29 December 1896) - translated from the Spanish by Charles Derbyshire.

“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.”

José Rizal

Letter to Fr. Pastells (11 November 1892)

“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.”

José Rizal

"Los Viajes"

“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

Letter to Fr. Pastells (4 April 1893)

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

José Rizal

Letter to Fr. Pastells (4 April 1893)

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

José Rizal

"The Lord Gazes at the Philippine Islands", an allegory. (date unknown)

“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

Annotations to Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas - translated by Austin Craig