People become like what they love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAMake yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge! They gnaw away at themselves constantly, and they have killed themselves even before they kill their enemies.
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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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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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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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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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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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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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Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they 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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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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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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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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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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All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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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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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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We trust and believe in what we love.
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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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The human heart is always drawn by love.
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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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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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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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