Love does not stay idle.
CATHERINE OF SIENAYou 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.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
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The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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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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Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
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Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
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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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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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One who knows more, loves more.
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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