What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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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One who knows more, loves more.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
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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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Don’t make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth.
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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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Of course you are unworthy. But when do you hope to be worthy? You will be no more worthy at the end than at the beginning. God alone is worthy of Himself, He alone can make us worthy of Him.
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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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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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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 only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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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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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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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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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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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
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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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Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
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Love does not stay idle.
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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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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.
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