Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.
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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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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Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
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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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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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Consider God’s charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?
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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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People become like what they love.
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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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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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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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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Love does not stay idle.
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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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