Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
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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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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We’ve had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.
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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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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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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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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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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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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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All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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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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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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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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