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 SIENAPeople become like what they love.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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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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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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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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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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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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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.
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Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
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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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To the servant of God… every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.
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