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 named church doctor by Benedict XIV in 1754.

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

Sermon 82

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Quotes

There are only two kinds of people who go into bankruptcy—those who don’t know how to handle money and those who know all too well.

Thomas Sowell

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Holy Bible

There are always values that some people think worthy enough that other people should have to pay for them—but not worthy enough that they should have to pay for them themselves.

Thomas Sowell

I do not represent public opinion; I represent the public. There is a wide difference between the two. . . .

Teddy Roosevelt

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Blaise Pascal

In the present age men are not very ready to die in defense of their opinions, but they are rarely inclined to change them; and there are fewer martyrs as well as fewer apostates.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Normally, thought precedes word; it seeks and formulates the word. But praying the Psalms and liturgical prayer in general is exactly the other way round: The word, the voice, goes ahead of us, and our mind must adapt to it.

Benedict XVI

I hold it to be sufficiently demonstrated that universal suffrage is by no means a guarantee of the wisdom of the popular choice, and that, whatever its advantages may be, this is not one of them.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

George Washington

There are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: good and evil, sin and love.

Maximilian Kolbe

Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Anatole France

We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

Edward Bernays

The only time ‘no’ ever means ‘no’ in the absence of violence is when it is uttered by one civilized person to another.

Jordan Peterson

If you see news that is so absurd it is literally unbelievable, that’s usually because it isn’t true.

Scott Adams

The fault of others is easily perceived, but that of one’s self is difficult to perceive; a man winnows his neighbor’s faults like chaff, but his own fault he hides, as a cheat hides the bad die from the player.

Siddhartha Gautama

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish . . . to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

Salman Rushdie

The duty of the survivor is to bear testimony to what happened. . . . You have to warn people that these things can happen, that evil can be unleashed.

Elie Wiesel

In the United States . . . all that [a man] asks of the state is not to be disturbed in his toil, and to be secure of his earnings.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Self-esteem is important, but it is not an entitlement. It has to be earned.

Thomas Friedman

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