It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
CATHERINE OF SIENAIt 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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A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
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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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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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The human heart is always drawn by love.
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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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Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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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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To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
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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.
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One who knows more, loves more.
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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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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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