Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.
CATHERINE OF SIENAWe’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.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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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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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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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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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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Consider God’s charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?
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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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