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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.

Catherine of Siena

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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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Failure Man Simplicity Yourself
We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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Character Humble Obedience
You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
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Love Measurement Reward Time Yourself
There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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Desire God Religious
The devil never sleeps.
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Devil One Liner Sleep
You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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God Greatness Small Yourself
Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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God Greatness Inspirational Motivational Satisfaction
Out of darkness is born the light.
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Born Darkness Inspirational Light One Liner
All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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Charity Pride Season Vice Virtue
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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Cry Enough Myself See Silence World
God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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Close God Ourselves Water
All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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Destination Heaven Journey Myself Religious Way
Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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Devotion Myself Religious Yourself
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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Feeling Love Nature
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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Carry Home Myself Spiritual
It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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Light Oneself Shadow
What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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Death Father Gave Up Himself Slave
People become like what they love.
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Love People Transformation
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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Complain Earth Greatness Necessary Yourself
Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.
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Enough God Himself Hold Man
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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God Sea Soul
Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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Capacity Myself Yourself
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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Charity God Himself Life Offend Pay See
Love transforms one into what one loves.
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Love Oneself Transformation
He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.
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Imagination Leaving Lose Way Yourself
Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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Fact God Plant Root Vice Virtue Yourself
Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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Heaven Journey Step Way

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