Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Quotes About Soul
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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 truths there. There is such a vast difference between the moment which follows, and the moment which precedes this one, between what we were before, and what we are after, that the word grace has been invented to convey the idea of this magic stroke, of this light from on high.
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Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.
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Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.
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It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness.
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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.
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Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
- Born: May 12, 1802
- Died: November 21, 1861
- Occupation: Journalist
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