Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAPerfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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Out of darkness is born the light.
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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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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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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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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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It is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.
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Don’t make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth.
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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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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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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We trust and believe in what we love.
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All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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