Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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 devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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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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Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
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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.
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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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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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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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One who knows more, loves more.
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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People become like what they love.
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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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It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
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The devil never sleeps.
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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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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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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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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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