25 Quotes by 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 the law which liberates.

After speech, silence is the greatest power in the world.

Nothing is achieved without solitude.

The inner life is the whole man, and forms all the worth of man.

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.

Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books, and a friend.

Prophecy, that universal and perpetual torch by which faith is enlightened.

There is nothing fruitful except sacrifice.

For Christians, the first of books is the Gospel and the Rosary is actually the abridgement of the Gospel.