You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
CATHERINE OF SIENAOf 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.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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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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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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One who knows more, loves more.
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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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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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Love does not stay idle.
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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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Out of darkness is born the light.
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Consider God’s charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?
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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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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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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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