"Jesus did not come to explain away suffering……" — Paul Claudel
"Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence."
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14 Quotes by Paul Claudel
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- Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink…
- The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a…
- Speak about Christ only when you are asked. But live so that people ask about Christ!
- Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.
- Intelligence is nothing without delight.
- All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning.…
- How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What…
- While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my…
- The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my…
- You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.
- When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.
- Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and…
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