Pope Leo Quotes

Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.

God is not only true, but Truth itself.

Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.

Catholics are born for combat.

The equal toleration of all religions...is the same as atheism.

The faith by which we live shall never vary in any age . . . for one is the faith which sanctifies the Just of all ages.

No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ.

Those who are not good to others are bad to themselves.

It has served us well, this myth of Christ.

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.

A great safeguard is the entire faith, the true faith, in which neither anything whatever can be added by anyone nor anything taken away; for, unless faith be one, it is not the faith.

The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you love will be yours for ever.

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

Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.

The cross of Christ is the true ground and chief cause of Christian hope.

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.

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'

There are many, and there will be many, who will gladly purchase eternal life for a small price, if they see that others are fighting for God in earnest, rather than pretending to do so.

What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!

I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.

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

The Child, the Lord Jesus Christ . . . Word in our flesh, Wisdom in infancy, Power in weakness, and in true Man, the Lord of Majesty.

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.

As far as Martin [Luther] himself is concerned, O good God, what have we overlooked or not done? What fatherly charity have we omitted that we might call him back from such errors?

Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy, let us enjoy it.

No person shall preach without the permission of his Superior. All preachers shall explain the Gospel according to the Fathers. They shall not explain futurity or the times of Antichrist!

The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth.

Truth, which is simple and one, admits of no variety.

Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery.

Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.

By Baptism we are made flesh of the Crucified

He that sees another in error and endeavors not to correct it, testifies himself to be in error.

Beyond our grasp, He chose to come within our grasp. Existing before time began, He began to exist at a moment in time.

The birthday of the Lord is the birthday of peace.

We are convinced that the Rosary, if devotely used is bound to benefit not only the individual but society at large.

A true worshipper is one whose mind has not been defiled with any false belief.

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

We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.

Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with a dainty lip, Digestion waits on pleasure as you sip.

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

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.

Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital.

Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.

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

To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ.

The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind.

The civil power must not be subservient to the advantage of any one individual, or of some few persons; inasmuch as it was established for the common good of all.