Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
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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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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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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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 the servant of God… every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.
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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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People become like what they love.
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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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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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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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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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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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Of course you are unworthy. But when do you hope to be worthy? You will be no more worthy at the end than at the beginning. God alone is worthy of Himself, He alone can make us worthy of Him.
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Don’t make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth.
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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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