“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.” IfsMenMindHas BeensDoneActionResultsProduceHe ManFruitCommand Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
“Like every man who appears at an epoch which is historical and rendered famous by his works, Jesus Christ has a history, a history which the church and the world possess, and which, surrounded by countless memorials, has at least the same authenticity as any other history formed in the same countries, amidst the same peoples and in the same times. As, then, if I would study the lives of Brutus and Cassius, I should calmly open Plutarch, I open the Gospel to study Jesus Christ, and I do so with the same composure.” IfsMenWorldShouldCountryJesusChristChurchStudyJesus ChristHistoricalEvery ManAuthenticityMemorialEpochComposureCassiusBrutus Author: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 up where obedience degenerates into guilty cowardice.” IfsSometimesHandsLawChristianityDrawsRaisesGuiltyObedienceTyrantsCowardiceBondageDegeneratesHands Of GodRaise Up Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
“Since God is the end of man, since he has created us to be perfect and happy in him, it is manifest that if the designs of creation have not here below been entirely frustrated, there should be found men who tend to their end in seeking and loving God. And nevertheless, because of human liberty, there should also be found other men who neglect God, their principle and their end, and yield to the seduction of created things. Such indeed is the spectacle which the history of the world unceasingly presents to us.” IfsMenWorldShouldHumansEndsFoundPerfectLibertyPrinciplesDesignCreationSeekingNeglectYieldManifestFrustratedNeverthelessSeductionWorld HistoryLoving God Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
