Catherine of Siena on charity
Catherine of Siena80 quotes“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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There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena 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.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena The human heart is always drawn by love.
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