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 SIENAHe 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.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge! They gnaw away at themselves constantly, and they have killed themselves even before they kill their enemies.
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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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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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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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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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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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Love does not stay idle.
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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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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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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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