25 Quotes by Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

Youth is life’s beautiful moment.

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

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.

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

It is religion which has made modern Europe what she is by its stability amid the ruin of nations, by adapting itself to circumstances, to times, and places, without ever abating an iota of its unshaken principles.

You saw me vacillating between error and truth, loving them equally because unable to distinguish the one from the other; the hour marked out by God for my enlightenment has come: He has shown me the powerlessness of reason, and the necessity of faith.

The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.

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