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 Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
The inner life is the whole man, and forms all the worth of man. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
Like every man who appears at an epoch which is historical and rendered famous by his works, Jesus Christ has a history, a history… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
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… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
There exists an infinite, eternal Being, subsisting of himself, who is one without being alone; for he finds in his own essence relations whence,… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
Prophecy, that universal and perpetual torch by which faith is enlightened. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
For Christians, the first of books is the Gospel and the Rosary is actually the abridgement of the Gospel. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of everything. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
