Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
CATHERINE OF SIENANothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
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Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.
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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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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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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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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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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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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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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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Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
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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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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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