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 the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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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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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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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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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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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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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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We trust and believe in what we love.
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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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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 strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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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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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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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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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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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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Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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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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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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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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The human heart is always drawn by love.
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People become like what they love.
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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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