Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
CATHERINE OF SIENAA full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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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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Out of darkness is born the light.
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Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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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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avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good.
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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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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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We trust and believe in what we love.
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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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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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The human heart is always drawn by love.
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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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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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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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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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Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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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 path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
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