The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
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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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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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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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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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The human heart is always drawn by love.
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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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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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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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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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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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People become like what they love.
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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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