Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
CATHERINE OF SIENAPonder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
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Out of darkness is born the light.
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Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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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 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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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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Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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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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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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