Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
CATHERINE OF SIENAWe’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.
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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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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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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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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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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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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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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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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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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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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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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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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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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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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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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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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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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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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People become like what they love.
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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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