Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
CATHERINE OF SIENAWhoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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People become like what they love.
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We’ve had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.
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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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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good.
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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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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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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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The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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