The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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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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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Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.
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Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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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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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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The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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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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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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The devil never sleeps.
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Love does not stay idle.
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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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