Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
CATHERINE OF SIENAWe trust and believe in what we love.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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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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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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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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There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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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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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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Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
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He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.
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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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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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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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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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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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Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
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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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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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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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Out of darkness is born the light.
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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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One who knows more, loves more.
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