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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAFather, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
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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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He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.
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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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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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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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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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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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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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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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Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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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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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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