You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.
CATHERINE OF SIENAA soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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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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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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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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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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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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Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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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.
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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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