Pope Leo XIII Quotes
Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
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.
Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
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.
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'
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.
Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.
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.
Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.
We are convinced that the Rosary, if devotely used is bound to benefit not only the individual but society at large.
It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.
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.
Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.
The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life
The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.
