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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAGod cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
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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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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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Out of darkness is born the light.
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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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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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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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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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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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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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Love does not stay idle.
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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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There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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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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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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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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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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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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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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