Quotes from Pope Leo XIII

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.

Peace is built on the foundation of justice.

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.

Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.

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.

We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.

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.

Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.

The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life

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.

God is not only true, but Truth itself.

Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.

These monstrous views,... these venomous teachings.

Nothing is more important than to war on war.

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.

It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.

Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others.

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.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.

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'

Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.

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.

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