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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThere is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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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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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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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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Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
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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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The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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Love does not stay idle.
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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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A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
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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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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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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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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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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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We’ve been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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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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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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People become like what they love.
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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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