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.
POPE LEO XIIIInadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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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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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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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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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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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 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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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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Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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Catholics are born for combat.
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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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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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Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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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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