Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
CATHERINE OF SIENAIt is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
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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Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.
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To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
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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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The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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One who knows more, loves more.
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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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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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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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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