Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
CATHERINE OF SIENAIt is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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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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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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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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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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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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The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
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The devil never sleeps.
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The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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Love does not stay idle.
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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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