avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good.
CATHERINE OF SIENAObedient people never trust in themselves.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
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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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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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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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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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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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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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You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
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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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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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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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Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
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It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.
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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
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It is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.
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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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Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
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The devil never sleeps.
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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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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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Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
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