The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
CATHERINE OF SIENATo a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.
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We’ve had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.
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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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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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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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We trust and believe in what we love.
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The human heart is always drawn by love.
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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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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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