avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good.
CATHERINE OF SIENACharity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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Don’t make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth.
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We trust and believe in what we love.
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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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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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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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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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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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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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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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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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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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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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Out of darkness is born the light.
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