Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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?
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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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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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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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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Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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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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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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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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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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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in 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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Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
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