Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.
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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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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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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Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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Out of darkness is born the light.
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It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.
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It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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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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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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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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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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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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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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The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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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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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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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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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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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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