Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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Love does not stay idle.
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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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We trust and believe in what we love.
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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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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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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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The human heart is always drawn by love.
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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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To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
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Out of darkness is born the light.
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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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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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avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good.
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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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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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There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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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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There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
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