Only yesterday I was full of worldly fancies, although religion had already some share in my thoughts: glory was still my daydream. Today my hopes are higher, and I covet here below nothing but obscurity and peace.
After speech, silence is the greatest power in the world. - Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
After speech, silence is the greatest power in the world.
- Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality. - Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.
Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend. - Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend.
Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of everything. - Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of everything.
Turn your eyes whither you will, enter into whatever temple you please, you will find there on the very threshold Prophecy and Sacrament .... whoever… - Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Turn your eyes whither you will, enter into whatever temple you please, you will find there on the very threshold Prophecy and Sacrament .... whoever…
Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else. - Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else.
The inner life is the whole man, and forms all the worth of man. - Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
The inner life is the whole man, and forms all the worth of man.
A really sublime moment is that when the last ray of light breaks in upon the soul, and marshals into a single group all the scattered disconnected t… - Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
A really sublime moment is that when the last ray of light breaks in upon the soul, and marshals into a single group all the scattered disconnected t…
In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down, and t… - Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down, and t…
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