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Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

(1802–1861) Politician France

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Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire was a politician from France, best known for Conférences de Notre-Dame de Paris.

Quick Facts About Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Born: May 12, 1802
Died: November 21, 1861
Nationality: France
Profession: Politician
Notable works: Conférences de Notre-Dame de Paris

About Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Jean-Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, OP, often styled Henri-Dominique Lacordaire, was a French Catholic priest, journalist, theologian and political activist. He re-established the Dominican Order in post-Revolutionary France. Lacordaire was reputed to be the greatest pulpit orator of the nineteenth century.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws…

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Bondage

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

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Genius

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

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Form

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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,…

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Authenticity

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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,…

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Altars

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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…

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Absolutes

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

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Enlightened

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Youth is life's beautiful moment.

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Beautiful

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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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Book

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

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Birth

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Nothing wounds a friend like a want of confidence.

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Confidence

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Nothing is achieved without solitude.

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Loneliness

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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…

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Action

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

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Blessing

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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…

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Answers

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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…

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Drawing

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

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Communication

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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…

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Action

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There is nothing fruitful except sacrifice.

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Sacrifice

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

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Form

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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…

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Break

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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…

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Buddhism

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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…

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Blood

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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…

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Adapting

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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.

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Death

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