Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
CATHERINE OF SIENAPerfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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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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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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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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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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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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We trust and believe in what we love.
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Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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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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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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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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