The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe human heart is always drawn by love.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good.
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Of course you are unworthy. But when do you hope to be worthy? You will be no more worthy at the end than at the beginning. God alone is worthy of Himself, He alone can make us worthy of Him.
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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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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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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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Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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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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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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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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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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