Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
POPE LEO XIIIBooks 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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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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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.
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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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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
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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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The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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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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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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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.
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Catholics are born for combat.
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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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