The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
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.
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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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The human heart is always drawn by love.
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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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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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.
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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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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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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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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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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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All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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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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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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Love does not stay idle.
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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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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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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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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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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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Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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