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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAConsider 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?
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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We’ve had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.
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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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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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