Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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People become like what they love.
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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 devil never sleeps.
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We trust and believe in what we love.
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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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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God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.
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Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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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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The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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