Turn your eyes whither you will, enter into whatever temple you please, you will find there on the very threshold Prophecy and Sacrament .... whoever despises these two things, infallibly bends towards earth, knowing nothing of God but his name, and holding with him no other relations than ingratitude and forgetfulness.
Jean-Baptiste Henri LacordaireFor Christians, the first of books is the Gospel and the Rosary is actually the abridgement of the Gospel.
Jean-Baptiste Henri LacordaireThe Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire