For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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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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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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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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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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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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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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Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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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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