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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAProclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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It 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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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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The devil never sleeps.
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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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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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A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.
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One who knows more, loves more.
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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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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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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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It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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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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Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
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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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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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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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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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