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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAMerit 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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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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We trust and believe in what we love.
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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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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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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 your possessions loaned to you by God.
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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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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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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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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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Out of darkness is born the light.
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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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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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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