The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
CATHERINE OF SIENALove transforms one into what one loves.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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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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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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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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It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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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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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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One who knows more, loves more.
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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and 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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There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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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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Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
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Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.
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Out of darkness is born the light.
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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
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