Leo the Great

Pope Saint Leo the Great (ca. A.D. 400-461) was the forty-fifth supreme pontiff and head of the Catholic Church, serving from 440 until his death in 461. He was proclaimed Doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XIV in 1754.

The Church is not diminished by persecutions, but rather increased.

Sermon 82

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Quotes

Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God.

Theodore Parker

Our life consists not in the pursuit of material success but in the quest for worthy spiritual growth. Our entire earthly existence is but a transitional stage in the movement toward something higher. . . .

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Forced compassion always short-circuits the human heart and destroys the integrity of true and loving charity.

Paul Skousen

Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

Universal Dec. of Human Rights

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the beloved.

John of the Cross

Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.

Thomas Sowell

Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the ‘wet streets cause rain’ stories. Paper’s full of them.

Michael Crichton

As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?

Anne Frank

If the state punishes capitalists when they’re successful . . . they will destroy their incentives, and the consequence is that they will produce less.

Javier Milei

Human freedom is more than a capacity to choose between this and that. It is the God-given power to become who he created us to be and so to share eternal union with him.

U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops

Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. . . . Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.

Patrick Henry

If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence J. Peter

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

Hannah Arendt

Natural endowment is far less consequential than the ability to use it productively, and that ability is an outcome of culture.

Ibn Warraq

Western man got rid of God in order to make himself God, and then he became bored with his own divinity.

Fulton Sheen

For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Holy Bible

An army of deer commanded by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions commanded by a deer.

Chabrias

You are, on the one hand, the most complex thing in the entire universe, and on the other, someone who can’t even set the clock on your microwave.

Jordan Peterson

You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.

Steve Jobs

We turn to holy people for their prayers because they seem nearer to God. Why would we stop asking saints for their prayers after they die? If . . . they are in heaven, would not their prayers be even more effective?

U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops

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