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 XIIIIt 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.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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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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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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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’
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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 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 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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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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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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People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community.
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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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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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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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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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