It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.
POPE LEO XIII
POPE LEO XIII
Pope Leo XIII on body
Pope Leo XIII41 quotes“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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Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII 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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Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII 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.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII 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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Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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