Saintliness is very odd. When people encounter it, they often take it for something else, something completely unlike it: indifference, mockery, scheming, coldness, insolence, perhaps even contempt. But they're mistaken, and that makes them furious. They commit an awful crime. This is doubtless the reason why most saints end up as martyrs. Philippe Claudel
Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
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Thomas Aquinas
If the saints fails to declare the truth, the Holy Spirit shall teach true words of God.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
Saint Melor’s father was Saint Meliau.”“Was everyone in Bertaèyn a saint, back in the day?”“ Everyone who didn’t murder anyone, maybe, ” Perrotte said.
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Merrie Haskell
Love without restraint makes one saint and the other faint the sweetest face and the tenderest embrace bring the sun to every place in such grace.
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Ana Claudia Antunes
The only person to influence the direction and purpose of your life is the one who gave it. God!
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Israelmore Ayivor
More Quotes By Philippe Claudel
Why did I, like thousands of others, have to carry a cross I hadn't chosen, a cross which was not made for my shoulders and which didn't concern me? Who decided to come rummaging around in my obscure existence, invade my gray anonymity, my meager...
...In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who have regained their freedom. You close your eyes, and then there's nothing anymore. And death is never difficult. It requires neither a hero...
It's always been difficult for me to speak and express my innermost thoughts. I prefer to write. When I sit down and write, words grow very docile, they come and feed out of my hand like little birds, and I can do almost what I...
They shall arrive in a murmur And shall disappear into fog and earth
