Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe 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 full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
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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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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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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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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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Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
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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 only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.
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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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