Jean Baptiste Massillon

Jean Baptiste Massillon (24 June 1663 – 28 September 1742) was a French Catholic bishop and famous preacher, Bishop of Clermont from 1717 until his death.

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Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).

• Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished?
  • P. 5.

• God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the govern1ng power of our whole souls.
  • P. 257.

• Admit their maxims, and the universe returns to a frightful chaos; all things are thrown into disorder upon the earth; all the notions of virtue and vice are overthrown; the most inviolable laws of society are abolished: the discipline of morality is swept away; the government of states and empires ceases to be subject to any rule; the whole harmony of political institutions is dissolved; and the human race becomes an assemblage of madmen, barbarians, cheats, unnatural wretches who have no other laws but force, no other curb than their passions and the dread of authority, no other tie than irreligion and independence, no other gods than themselves.
  • P. 348.

External links

• 'Sermons from Bishop Jean-Baptist Massillon'.
• 'Massillon's Sermons for All the Sundays'.