Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and 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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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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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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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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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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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.
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It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
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People become like what they love.
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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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The devil never sleeps.
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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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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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