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?
CATHERINE OF SIENAPerfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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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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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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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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Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.
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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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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
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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 must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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We’ve had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.
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