God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.
CATHERINE OF SIENAObedience shows whether you are grateful.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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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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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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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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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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Don’t make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth.
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The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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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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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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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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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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