Catherine of Siena on evil
Catherine of Siena80 quotes“Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.”
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It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena To the servant of God… every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Out of darkness is born the light.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Obedient people never trust in themselves.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena One who knows more, loves more.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena We trust and believe in what we love.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena 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.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena
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Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.
Hannah ArendtHannah Arendt Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
Abu BakrAbu Bakr The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Hannah ArendtHannah Arendt Evil, as she saw it, need not be committed only by demonic monsters but—with disastrous effect—by morons and imbeciles as well, especially if, as we see in our own day, their deeds are sanctioned by religious authority.
Hannah ArendtHannah Arendt No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
Abu BakrAbu Bakr Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
Abu BakrAbu Bakr All evil is corrective and remedial and is therefore not permanent.
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