What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
CATHERINE OF SIENAConsider your possessions loaned to you by God.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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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 strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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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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There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
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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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Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
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The human heart is always drawn by love.
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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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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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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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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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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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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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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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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 Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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