Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Quotes

#1. Prophecy, that universal and perpetual torch by which faith is enlightened. - Author: Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#2. After speech, silence is the greatest power in the world. - Author: Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#3. The inner life is the whole man, and forms all the worth of man. - Author: Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#4. Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that. - Author: Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#5. The mind sees, the will commands, the man acts. What is it then to act? To act is to produce something. If you have produced nothing
if no result has been the fruit of your will, you have done nothing. - Author: Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#6. Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Author: Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#7. As to the lawful pleasures of the mind, the heart, or the senses, indulge in them with gratitude and moderation, drawing up sometimes in order to punish yourself, without waiting to be forced to do so by necessity. - Author: Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#8. Youth is life's beautiful moment. - Author: Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#9. In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down, and the law which liberates. - Author: Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#10. Wherever God is adored, he is adored in virtue of a supernatural doctrine; wherever he is despised, he is despised in the name of nature and reason. - Author: Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#11. Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend. - Author: Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#12. Nothing wounds a friend like a want of confidence. - Author: Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#13. Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality. - Author: Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#14. The great men of antiquity were poor. - Author: Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#15. For Christians, the first of books is the Gospel and the Rosary is actually the abridgement of the Gospel. - Author: Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#16. The intercourse between man and God reposes upon truths of another order than that of reason, upon a light different and more elevated than that which naturally enlightens created intelligences. - Author: Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#17. It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness. - Author: Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#18. Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where obedience degenerates into guilty cowardice. - Author: Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#19. There is nothing fruitful except sacrifice. - Author: Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#20. Nothing is achieved without solitude. - Author: Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#21. Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else. - Author: Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#22. You saw me vacillating between error and truth, loving them equally because unable to distinguish the one from the other; the hour marked out by God for my enlightenment has come: He has shown me the powerlessness of reason, and the necessity of faith. - Author: Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#23. It is religion which has made modern Europe what she is by its stability amid the ruin of nations, by adapting itself to circumstances, to times, and places, without ever abating an iota of its unshaken principles. - Author: Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#24. The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck. - Author: Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#25. Only yesterday I was full of worldly fancies, although religion had already some share in my thoughts: glory was still my daydream. Today my hopes are higher, and I covet here below nothing but obscurity and peace. - Author: Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire