The human heart is always drawn by love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAMake yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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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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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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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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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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Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
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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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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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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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People become like what they love.
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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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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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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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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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