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 XIIINo 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.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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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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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
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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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Nothing is more important than to war on war.
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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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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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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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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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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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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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Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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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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