Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
CATHERINE OF SIENATo a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
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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A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
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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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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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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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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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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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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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Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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One who knows more, loves more.
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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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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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Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
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There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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People become like what they love.
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