The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
CATHERINE OF SIENAOh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge! They gnaw away at themselves constantly, and they have killed themselves even before they kill their enemies.
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One who knows more, loves more.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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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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Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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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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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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We trust and believe in what we love.
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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good.
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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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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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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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