There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
CATHERINE OF SIENANothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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Of course you are unworthy. But when do you hope to be worthy? You will be no more worthy at the end than at the beginning. God alone is worthy of Himself, He alone can make us worthy of Him.
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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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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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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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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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The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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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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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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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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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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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.
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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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