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.
POPE LEO XIIIThe twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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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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Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.
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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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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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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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Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
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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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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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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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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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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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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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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 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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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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