52 Quotes by Pope Leo XIII

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

Nothing is more important than to war on war.

There are three influences which appear to Us to have the chief place in effecting this downgrade movement of society. These are-first, the distaste for a simple and laborious life; secondly, repugnance to suffering of any kind; thirdly, the forgetfulness of the future life.

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

The foremost duty, therefore, of the rulers of the State should be to make sure that the laws and institutions, the general character and administration of the commonwealth, shall be such as of themselves to realize public well-being and private prosperity. This is the proper scope of wise statesmanship and is the work of the rulers. Now.

From a mass of conclusions men often come to wavering and doubt; and who knows not how easily the mind slips from doubt to error?

We have said that the State must not absorb the individual or the family; both should be allowed free and untrammeled action.