Leo XIII Quotes

It is not for the pastors of the Church to intervene directly in the political construction and organization of social life.

I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.

The church, by reason of her role and competence, is not identified with any political community nor is it tied to any political system

The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

We want the church and state to be separated. Only then will religion be able to fulfill its purpose — to comfort the misery, to console the grieved.

Government has crowded out the role of many social institutions, including the Church, that have been a great force for good in public life.

The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

If indeed this is the work of God... then it's a crisis that calls for the church to be its very best self, and not worry about risking itself for the right thing.

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.

It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.

I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church.

In all God's plans for human redemption, He proposes that men pray. The men are to pray in every place, in the church, in the closet, in the home, on sacred days and on secular days.

Are you facing a superheated furnace? What God wants is for you to look full in the face of Jesus. Get your focus off whatever it is that appears to be unanswered and focus on the Son.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here.

I think if the church did what they were supposed to do we wouldn't have anyone sleeping on the streets.

I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.

Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

The role of the church and the government are fundamentally different. The church must always show compassion - always.

We're so mixed up about religion in this culture. We say the Pledge of Allegiance, 'under God indivisible,' but there's no prayer in the schools. I would be so untethered without my personal faith. I wouldn't be able to go through a day - but that's my own experience.