Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
POPE LEO XIIIDivorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.
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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life.
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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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No human law can abolish the natural and original right of marriage, nor in any way limit the chief and principal purpose of marriage ordained by God’s authority from the beginning: “Increase and multiply.
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But the supreme teacher in the Church is the Roman Pontiff. Union of minds, therefore, requires, together with a perfect accord in the one faith, complete submission and obedience of will to the Church and to the Roman Pontiff, as to God Himself.
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The family was ordained of God that children might be trained up for himself; it was before the church, or rather the first form of the church on earth.
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It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.
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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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Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
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There is in the Sacred Heart the symbol and express image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to love in return.
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It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.
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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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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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You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that the faith of Rome is to be held
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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community.
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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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Catholics are born for combat.
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Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.
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The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind.
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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier.
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Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.
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