Pope Leo I Quotes

#1. 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.

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

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#3. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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#9. By Baptism we are made flesh of the Crucified

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#10. God ordained for every man one and the same means of salvation.

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

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#12. The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth.

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#13. The birthday of the Lord is the birthday of peace.

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#14. Let no one be ashamed of the cross by which Christ has redeemed the world. None of us must be afraid to suffer for the sake of justice or doubt the fulfillment of the promises, for it is through toil that we come to rest and through death that we pass to life.

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

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

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

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#18. 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.

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

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#20. The Church is a virgin, the bride of one Spouse, Who is Christ, and this Church does not allow herself to be violated by any error; so that, throughout the whole world there may be for us one uncorruptedness of a single chaste communion.

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