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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAHow 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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAMerit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
CATHERINE OF SIENAIt is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.
CATHERINE OF SIENAA full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
CATHERINE OF SIENAConsider your possessions loaned to you by God.
CATHERINE OF SIENAYou, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
CATHERINE OF SIENAWhat father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
CATHERINE OF SIENAYou are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
CATHERINE OF SIENACharity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
CATHERINE OF SIENALord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
CATHERINE OF SIENAYou 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.
CATHERINE OF SIENALove does not stay idle.
CATHERINE OF SIENAWhat 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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAWe will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
CATHERINE OF SIENAPreach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
CATHERINE OF SIENALet us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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