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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.

Catherine of Siena

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
There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
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Angry Hell Life Patience Sin Wrong
There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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Exercise Ourselves Perfection Virtue
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
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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Body Change Face God Love Yourself
The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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Heaven Path Religious Way
Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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Himself Love World
You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
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Love Measurement Reward Time Yourself
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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Charity God Himself Life Offend Pay See
Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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Devotion Myself Religious Yourself
The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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Admire Oneself Purity Strong
You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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Knowledge Necessary Yourself
Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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Home Knowledge Ourselves
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
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
Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
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Goal God Love Man Mindset

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