People become like what they 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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There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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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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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
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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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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
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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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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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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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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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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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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
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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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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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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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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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