Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
CATHERINE OF SIENADon’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.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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 will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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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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All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good.
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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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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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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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