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The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.

Catherine of Siena

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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God Sea Soul
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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Goodness Jealous Worm
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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Charity Creation God Man Soul Sweet
For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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Charity Humility Obedience
Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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Creation God Love Ourselves
It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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Light Oneself Shadow
Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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Evil Harm Life Rich Suffering
Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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Devotion Myself Religious Yourself
You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
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Love Measurement Reward Time Yourself
It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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Human Persistence Sin
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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Forever Impossible Law Yourself
Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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Capacity Myself Yourself
Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
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Hope Love People Trust
It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
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Devil Human Perseverance Sin
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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Imagination Leaving Lose Way Yourself
Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.
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Enough God Himself Hold Man

The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.

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