It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
CATHERINE OF SIENAConsider 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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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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There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
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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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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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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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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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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.
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Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.
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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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People become like what they love.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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The human heart is always drawn by love.
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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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