The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
CATHERINE OF SIENAPerfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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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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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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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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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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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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How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge! They gnaw away at themselves constantly, and they have killed themselves even before they kill their enemies.
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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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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It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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Out of darkness is born the light.
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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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