Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
CATHERINE OF SIENAWhoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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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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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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Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
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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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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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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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To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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Consider God’s charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?
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The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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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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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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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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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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To the servant of God… every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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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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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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