Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
POPE LEO XIIIIt 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.
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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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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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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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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Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
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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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Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.
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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 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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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 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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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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The fact that God gave the whole human race the earth to use and enjoy cannot indeed in any manner serve as an objection against private possessions.
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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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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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