There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
CATHERINE OF SIENASince love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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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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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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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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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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We trust and believe in what we love.
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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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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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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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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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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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