You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAWhat 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.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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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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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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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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You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
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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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