Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
CATHERINE OF SIENAA soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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The human heart is always drawn by love.
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Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those 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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To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
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Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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Out of darkness is born the light.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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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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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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It is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.
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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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Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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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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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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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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Love does not stay idle.
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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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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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The devil never sleeps.
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To the servant of God… every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.
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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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