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.
CATHERINE OF SIENALose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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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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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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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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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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What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.
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Out of darkness is born the light.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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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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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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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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You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
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We trust and believe in what we love.
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One who knows more, loves more.
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