Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
CATHERINE OF SIENAMake two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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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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Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
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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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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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Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
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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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The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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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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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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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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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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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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