Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
CATHERINE OF SIENABe who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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People become like what they love.
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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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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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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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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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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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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.
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The devil never sleeps.
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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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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All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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