You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
CATHERINE OF SIENAHe 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.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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We trust and believe in what we love.
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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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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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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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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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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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God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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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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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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Love does not stay idle.
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Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.
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Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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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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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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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.
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Out of darkness is born the light.
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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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Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
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Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
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