The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
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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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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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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A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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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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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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Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
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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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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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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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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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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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