Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.
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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We’ve had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.
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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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We trust and believe in what we love.
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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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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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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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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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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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