Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
CATHERINE OF SIENAPonder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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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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avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good.
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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge! They gnaw away at themselves constantly, and they have killed themselves even before they kill their enemies.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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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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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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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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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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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.
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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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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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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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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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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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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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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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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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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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