It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
CATHERINE OF SIENAIt’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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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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All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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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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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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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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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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We trust and believe in what we love.
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Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.
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Consider God’s charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?
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