Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
CATHERINE OF SIENAIt 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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There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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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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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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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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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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One who knows more, loves more.
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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 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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Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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To the servant of God… every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.
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