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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAYou, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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The devil never sleeps.
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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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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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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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Out of darkness is born the light.
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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Love does not stay idle.
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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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All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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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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