There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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People become like what they love.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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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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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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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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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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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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It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
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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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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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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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