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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAGod is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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God is closer to us than water is to a 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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It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.
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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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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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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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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.
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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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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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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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It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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