Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Louis Bourdaloue (French Jesuit Preacher)

Louis Bourdaloue (1632–1704) was a French Jesuit preacher. Considered the greatest of the 17th-century court preachers, he brought the classic sermon to its perfect oratorical technique.

Born in Bourges, Bourdaloue joined the Jesuits in 1648. He was employed in teaching rhetoric, philosophy, and moral theology in various Jesuit colleges.

Bourdaloue had the gift for oratory, and he began preaching in Amiens in 1665 and later in Orléans and Rouen. From 1669, he preached for 34 consecutive years in Paris.

In contrast to the secular writers of his day, who wrote about moralist portrayal of types and characters, Bourdaloue preached about social and personal morality. His twelve courses of sermons delivered in Lent and Advent before Louis XIV’s court earned Bourdaloue a reputation as an extraordinary preacher.

The English conductor George Francis Crowther translated and published Bourdaloue’s Eight Sermons for Holy Week and Easter (1884.)

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If a man is devout, we accuse him of hypocrisy; if he is not, of impiety; if he is humble, we look on his humility as a weakness; if he is generous, we call his courage pride.
Louis Bourdaloue

From the moment it is touched, the heart cannot dry up.
Louis Bourdaloue

At court, far from regarding ambition as a sin, people regard it as a virtue, or if it passes for a vice, then it is regarded as the vice of great souls, and the vices of great souls are preferred to the virtues of the simple and the small.
Louis Bourdaloue

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