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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAToo great pity is the greatest cruelty.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
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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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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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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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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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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 soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
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Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
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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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Love does not stay idle.
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Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
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