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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAPerfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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One who knows more, loves more.
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It is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.
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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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Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.
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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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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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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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People become like what they love.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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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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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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You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.
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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 devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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