Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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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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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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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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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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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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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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