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 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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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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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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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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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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Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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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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Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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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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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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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 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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Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.
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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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