"We have said that the State must not……" — Pope Leo XIII
"We have said that the State must not absorb the individual or the family; both should be allowed free and untrammelled action so far as is consistent with the common good and the interest of others. Rulers should, nevertheless, anxiously safeguard the community and all its members; the community, because the conservation thereof is so emphatically the business of the supreme power, that the safety of the commonwealth is not only the first law, but it is a government's whole reason of existence...."
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Pope Leo XIII
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52 Quotes by Pope Leo XIII
Pope Leo XIII has 52 quotes on this site.
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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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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection…
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Our Lord came to the aid of each great tribulation with a special devotion. The present and future tribulations of…
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The Eucharist is source and pledge of blessedness and glory, not for the soul alone, but for the body also....…
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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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Thoughtful men, with hearts craving the truth, have come to seek in the Catholic Church the road which leads with…
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The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are…
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For what concerns diversity of rites in the sacred liturgy, the Apostolic See has always made its position clear: not…
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They knew only too well the intimate bond which unites faith with worship, 'the law of belief with the law…
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It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which…
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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it…
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That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.
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