Love transforms one into what one loves.
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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You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.
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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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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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People become like what they love.
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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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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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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 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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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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