Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Quotes

It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness.

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.

Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend.

Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of everything.

Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

The inner life is the whole man, and forms all the worth of man.

The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.

Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else.

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.

Youth is life's beautiful moment.

Nothing is achieved without solitude.

After speech, silence is the greatest power in the world.

For Christians, the first of books is the Gospel and the Rosary is actually the abridgement of the Gospel.

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.

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.

Prophecy, that universal and perpetual torch by which faith is enlightened.

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.

The great men of antiquity were poor.

There is nothing fruitful except sacrifice.