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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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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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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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One who knows more, loves more.
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We’ve had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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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.
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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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Don’t make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth.
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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