Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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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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Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
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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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People become like what they love.
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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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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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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
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Consider God’s charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?
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It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.
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