Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
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.
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The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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One who knows more, loves more.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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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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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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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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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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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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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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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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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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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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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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