“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.” PeopleSometimesFormIndividualNationsSocialPowerfulAtheismExpressionBecomingTemplesAltarsUnbeliefPriesthood Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
“It is not a slight thing, gentlemen, to force a man to say what he is, or what he believes himself to be; for that supreme word of man, that single expression which he utters of and upon himself is decisive. It lays down the basis upon which all judgment of him is to be formed. From that moment all the acts of his life must correspond to the answer given by him.” MenBelieveMomentsGivenForceAnswersExpressionJudgmentBasesLaysSupremeGentlemanThat Moment Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
