All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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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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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
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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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avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good.
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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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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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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Of course you are unworthy. But when do you hope to be worthy? You will be no more worthy at the end than at the beginning. God alone is worthy of Himself, He alone can make us worthy of Him.
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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
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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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