You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAAll the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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Don’t make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth.
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Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.
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A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.
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You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.
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To the servant of God… every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.
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Consider God’s charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?
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We’ve been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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Of course you are unworthy. But when do you hope to be worthy? You will be no more worthy at the end than at the beginning. God alone is worthy of Himself, He alone can make us worthy of Him.
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Love does not stay idle.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
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God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.
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