All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
CATHERINE OF SIENAPerfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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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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Out of darkness is born the light.
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Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
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The devil never sleeps.
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The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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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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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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Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.
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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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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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