Quotes from Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

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.

The great men of antiquity were poor.

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

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.

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.

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

Youth is life's beautiful moment.

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

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

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

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

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