How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge! They gnaw away at themselves constantly, and they have killed themselves even before they kill their enemies.
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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Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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People become like what they love.
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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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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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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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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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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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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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One who knows more, loves more.
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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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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
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Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
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