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’
POPE LEO XIIIThe 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.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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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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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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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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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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The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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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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We are convinced that the Rosary, if devotely used is bound to benefit not only the individual but society at large.
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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 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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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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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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The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian’s writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity.
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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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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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