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.
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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Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.
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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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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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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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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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Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
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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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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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The human heart is always drawn by love.
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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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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 more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
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People become like what they love.
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Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
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