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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.

Catherine of Siena

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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Charity God Himself Life Offend Pay See
What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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Death Father Gave Up Himself Slave
A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
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Creation Live Soul
There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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Exercise Ourselves Perfection Virtue
The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
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God Sea Soul
God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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Close God Ourselves Water
It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
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Love Person Property
Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
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Kill Silence Truth Voice World
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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Failure Man Simplicity Yourself
God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.
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Feeling God Himself Leaving Lips Soul
It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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Light Oneself Shadow
Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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Devotion Myself Religious Yourself
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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Body Change Face God Love Yourself
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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Deep God Thinking Way
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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Enough God Himself Hold Man
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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Goodness Jealous Worm

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