Catherine of Siena on body
Catherine of Siena80 quotes“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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People become like what they love.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena The devil never sleeps.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena 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.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena 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.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena
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Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Mahatma GandhiMahatma Gandhi What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
AristotleAristotle I have to feel like I’m in control of my body.
Megan FoxMegan Fox We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
Anais NinAnais Nin The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.
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