For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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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The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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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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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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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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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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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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There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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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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The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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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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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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It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.
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