It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man.
POPE LEO XIIINothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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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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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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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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The fact that God gave the whole human race the earth to use and enjoy cannot indeed in any manner serve as an objection against private possessions.
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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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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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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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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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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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The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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