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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.

Catherine of Siena

Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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Body Kill Ourselves Perfection
Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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Achievement Endurance Greatness
It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
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Devil Human Perseverance Sin
It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.
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Forever Impossible Law Yourself
For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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Charity Humility Obedience
The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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Creature Devil Himself Place
How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge! They gnaw away at themselves constantly, and they have killed themselves even before they kill their enemies.
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Enemy Hungry Kill Pain Revenge
Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
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Charity Creation God Man Soul Sweet
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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Complain Earth Greatness Necessary Yourself
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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Failure Man Simplicity Yourself
The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
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God Sea Soul
All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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Charity Pride Season Vice Virtue
Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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Home Knowledge Ourselves
You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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Knowledge Necessary Yourself
You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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Believe God Truth Yourself
It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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Light Oneself Shadow

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