Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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One who knows more, loves more.
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Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.
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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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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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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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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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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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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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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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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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We trust and believe in what we love.
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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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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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avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good.
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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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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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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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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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Love does not stay idle.
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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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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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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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