We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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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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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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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The devil never sleeps.
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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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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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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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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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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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People become like what they love.
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To the servant of God… every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.
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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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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.
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Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
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