Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
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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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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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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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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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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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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It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.
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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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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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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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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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A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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