We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
CATHERINE OF SIENAIt is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.
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To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
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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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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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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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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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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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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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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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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.
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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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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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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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