It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThere is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without 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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One who knows more, loves more.
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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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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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
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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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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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It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
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