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.
POPE LEO XIIIMoreover, 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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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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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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Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
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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 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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The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.
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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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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.
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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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Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.
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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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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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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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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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