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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.

Catherine of Siena

Don’t make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth.
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Complain Earth Greatness Necessary Yourself
Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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Creation God Love Ourselves
Merit 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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Alone Love Soul Virtue Worth
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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Failure Man Simplicity Yourself
Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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Evil Harm Life Rich Suffering
For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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Charity Humility Obedience
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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Feeling Love Nature
Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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God Possession Yourself
A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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Character Modesty Purity Spirit
You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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Knowledge Necessary Yourself
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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Feeling God Himself Leaving Lips Soul
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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Body Change Face God Love Yourself
It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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Light Oneself Shadow
Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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Himself Love World
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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God Sea Soul
You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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Believe God Truth Yourself

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