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?
CATHERINE OF SIENAWhoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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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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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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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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It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
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The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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The devil never sleeps.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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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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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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We’ve been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
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Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
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