It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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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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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Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
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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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Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.
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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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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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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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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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Love does not stay idle.
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Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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You 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.
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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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God is closer to us than water is to a 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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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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All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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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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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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