We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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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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Of course you are unworthy. But when do you hope to be worthy? You will be no more worthy at the end than at the beginning. God alone is worthy of Himself, He alone can make us worthy of Him.
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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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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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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
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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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It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
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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 devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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