Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Quotes

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

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Tattoo, Kindness, Greatness

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• 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.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Strong, Law, Liberty

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

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Book, Happy Life, Blessing

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

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Love, Ends, Middle

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• A really sublime moment is that when the last ray of light breaks in upon the soul, and marshals into a single group all the scattered disconnected truths there. There is such a vast difference between the moment which follows, and the moment which precedes this one, between what we were before, and what we are after, that the word grace has been invented to convey the idea of this magic stroke, of this light from on high.

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  Light, Ideas, Differences

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

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Silence, World, Speech

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• Nothing is achieved without solitude.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Solitude

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• 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.

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  Men, Mind, Done

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

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Men, Life Is, Form

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

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Responsibility, Ideas, Soul

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

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Love, Kindness, Greatness

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• The universe shows us the life of God, or rather it is in itself the life of God. We behold in it his permanent action, the scene upon which his power is exercised, and in which all his attributes are reflected. God is not out of the universe any more than the universe is out of God. God is the principle, the universe is the consequence, but a necessary consequence, without which the principle would be inert, unfruitful, impossible to conceive.

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  Principles, Would Be, Action

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

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  Rights, Race, Church

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• It is not a slight thing, gentlemen, to force a man to say what he is, or what he believes himself to be; for that supreme word of man, that single expression which he utters of and upon himself is decisive. It lays down the basis upon which all judgment of him is to be formed. From that moment all the acts of his life must correspond to the answer given by him.

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  Believe, Men, Expression

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

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Life, Sister, Real

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

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Men, Solitude, Form

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• 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.

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  Errors, Enlightenment, Saws

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

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  Christian, Book, Rosary

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• There is nothing fruitful except sacrifice.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Sacrifice, Self-denial

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• Happily, and thanks to God, there are orifices through which our inner life constantly escapes, and the soul, like the blood, hath its pores. The mouth is the chief and foremost of these channels which lead the soul out of its invisible sanctuary; it is by speech that man communicates the secret converse which is his real life.

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  Real, Men, Blood

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• Nothing wounds a friend like a want of confidence.

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  Friendship, Want, Wounds

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• Like every man who appears at an epoch which is historical and rendered famous by his works, Jesus Christ has a history, a history which the church and the world possess, and which, surrounded by countless memorials, has at least the same authenticity as any other history formed in the same countries, amidst the same peoples and in the same times. As, then, if I would study the lives of Brutus and Cassius, I should calmly open Plutarch, I open the Gospel to study Jesus Christ, and I do so with the same composure.

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  Country, Jesus, Men

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• Youth is life's beautiful moment.

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  Beautiful, Youth, Moments

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• The great men of antiquity were poor.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Men, Great Men, Poor

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• 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.

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  Men, Light, Order

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