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 SIENANothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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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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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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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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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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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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The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.
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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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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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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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