It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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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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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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The human heart is always drawn by love.
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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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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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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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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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Don’t make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth.
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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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Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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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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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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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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