Out of darkness is born the light.
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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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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Of course you are unworthy. But when do you hope to be worthy? You will be no more worthy at the end than at the beginning. God alone is worthy of Himself, He alone can make us worthy of Him.
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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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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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Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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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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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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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.
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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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Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
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People become like what they love.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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To the servant of God… every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.
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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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To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
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All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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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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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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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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