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. — 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
The universe shows us the life of God, or rather it is in itself the life of God. We behold in it his permanent… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
It is not a slight thing, gentlemen, to force a man to say what he is, or what he believes himself to be; for… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
