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.
POPE LEO XIIIYou 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
More Pope Leo XIII Quotes
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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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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 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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There is in the Sacred Heart the symbol and express image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to love in return.
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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 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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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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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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Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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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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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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We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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