The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
CATHERINE OF SIENAPerfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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Out of darkness is born the light.
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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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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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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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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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Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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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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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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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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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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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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A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
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