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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.

Catherine of Siena

God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Feeling God Himself Leaving Lips Soul
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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God Sea Soul
Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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Home Knowledge Ourselves
All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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Charity Pride Season Vice Virtue
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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Enough God Himself Hold Man
To the servant of God… every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.
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God Place Right Service Time
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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Alone Love Soul Virtue Worth
It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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Human Persistence Sin
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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Goodness Jealous Worm
There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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Exercise Ourselves Perfection Virtue
Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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God Possession Yourself
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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Charity Creation God Man Soul Sweet
God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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God Sin Sorry
There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
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Angry Hell Life Patience Sin Wrong
The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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Heaven Path Religious Way
What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.
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Body Change Face God Love Yourself

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