“The great men of antiquity were poor.” MenPoorGreat MenAntiquity Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
“Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else.” MenFormSolitudeInteriors Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
“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
“Happily, and thanks to God, there are orifices through which our inner life constantly escapes, and the soul, like the blood, hath its pores. The mouth is the chief and foremost of these channels which lead the soul out of its invisible sanctuary; it is by speech that man communicates the secret converse which is his real life.” MenRealSoulSecretBloodSpeechMouthsCommunicateReal LifeInvisibleThanksChiefsSanctuaryInner LifeConverses Author: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.” MenDifferentReasonLightOrderEnlighteningIntercourseRepose Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
“The inner life is the whole man, and forms all the worth of man.” MenWholeFormLife IsInner Life 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
“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
