A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
CATHERINE OF SIENAavarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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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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The devil never sleeps.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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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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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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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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The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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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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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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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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We trust and believe in what we love.
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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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