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• 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.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Names, Doctrine, Virtue

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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.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Men, Light, Order

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• Since God is the end of man, since he has created us to be perfect and happy in him, it is manifest that if the designs of creation have not here below been entirely frustrated, there should be found men who tend to their end in seeking and loving God. And nevertheless, because of human liberty, there should also be found other men who neglect God, their principle and their end, and yield to the seduction of created things. Such indeed is the spectacle which the history of the world unceasingly presents to us.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Men, Yield, Perfect

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• There exists an infinite, eternal Being, subsisting of himself, who is one without being alone; for he finds in his own essence relations whence, with the necessary movement of his life, results the absolute plenitude of his perfection and his happiness. A Being unique and complete, God suffices to himself.

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  God, Unique, Essence

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• Whilst no people appears in history without the sign and palladium of a positive faith, without temple, altar, priesthood--that is to say, without a constituted religion--unbelief appears only under an individual form, sometimes proscribed, sometimes tolerated, seldom powerful, and never becoming established as the public and social expression of a nation.

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  Powerful, Expression, People

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• 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.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Yesterday, Obscurity, Fancy

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• 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.

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  Hands, Law, Tyrants

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• 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.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Gratitude, Heart, Order

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• 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.

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  Europe, Principles, Ruins

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

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Torches, Enlightened, Prophecy

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