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 XIIIThere is in the Sacred Heart the symbol and express image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to love in return.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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Catholics are born for combat.
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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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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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Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
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The present age handed over the workers, each alone and defenseless, to the unbridled greed of competitors… so that a very few and exceedingly rich men have laid a yoke of almost slavery on the unnumbered masses of non-owning workers.
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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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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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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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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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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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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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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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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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You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that the faith of Rome is to be held
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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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