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 SIENAHope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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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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God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.
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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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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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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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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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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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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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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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Of course you are unworthy. But when do you hope to be worthy? You will be no more worthy at the end than at the beginning. God alone is worthy of Himself, He alone can make us worthy of Him.
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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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