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.
Pope Leo XIIIThe twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life
Pope Leo XIIINothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.
Pope Leo XIIIIt 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.
Pope Leo XIII