It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAYou are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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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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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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Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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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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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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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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