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.
POPE LEO XIIIThe 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.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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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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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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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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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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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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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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Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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The liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrances, is not in itself an advantage over which society can wisely rejoice. On the contrary, it is the fountainhead and origin of many evils.
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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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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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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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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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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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The devotion which God sends to the succor of His Church and of the nations at the present time is the devotion to the Most Holy Eucharist. It is the highest of all devotions.
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