"The priest has just baptized you a Christian……" — Paul Claudel
"The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips."
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Paul Claudel
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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…
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Speak about Christ only when you are asked. But live so that people ask about Christ!
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Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.
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Intelligence is nothing without delight.
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All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning.…
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Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence.
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How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What…
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While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my…
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The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my…
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You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.
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When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.
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Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and…
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You see how many are the benefits of baptism, and some think its heavenly grace consists only in the remission…
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Because of this basin of repentance and knowledge of God, which has been ordained for the transgression of God's people,…
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You might as well baptize a bag of sand as a man, if not done in view of the remission…
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Baptize first the children; and if they can speak for themselves, let them do so. Otherwise, let their parents or…
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Wherever the bishop shall appear, let the multitude of also be, just as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the…
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Whereas there can be but one Baptism, they think they can Baptize; they have abandoned the fountain of life, yet…
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Clearly, when we baptize, our eyes should gaze beyond the baptismal font to the holy temple. The great garner into…
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Only baptize them if you truly believe these people are ready, taking a little more time if necessary so the…
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Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing…
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Somewhere along the way we have subtly and tragically taken the costly command of Christ to go, baptize, and teach…
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Well, if I were in charge, they would know that waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.
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All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel…
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