The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
CATHERINE OF SIENAPerfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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Out of darkness is born the light.
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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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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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People become like what they love.
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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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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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We trust and believe in what we love.
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Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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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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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
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We’ve been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
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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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Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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