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The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena One who knows more, loves more.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena We trust and believe in what we love.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena We’ve had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena 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.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena
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