People become like what they love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAGod is closer to us than water is to a fish.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
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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 must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.
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There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
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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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Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.
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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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To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
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Love does not stay idle.
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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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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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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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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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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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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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It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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