We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
POPE LEO XIII
POPE LEO XIII
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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.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind.
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.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII 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.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII 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.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII 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.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII God is not only true, but Truth itself.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII
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Steve MaraboliSteve Maraboli It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
Simone WeilSimone Weil I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.
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