Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.
CATHERINE OF SIENAWhat 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.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
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Love does not stay idle.
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All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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The devil never sleeps.
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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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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
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Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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