To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
POPE LEO XIIIIt is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.
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The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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The present age handed over the workers, each alone and defenseless, to the unbridled greed of competitors… so that a very few and exceedingly rich men have laid a yoke of almost slavery on the unnumbered masses of non-owning workers.
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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
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The fact that God gave the whole human race the earth to use and enjoy cannot indeed in any manner serve as an objection against private possessions.
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It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
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Moreover, Christians are born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God willing, the triumph: ‘Have confidence; I have overcome the world’
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The Rosary is the most excellent form of prayer and the most efficacious means of attaining eternal life. It is the remedy for all our evils, the root of all our blessings. There is no more excellent way of praying.
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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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