Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
CATHERINE OF SIENAIt is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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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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Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
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The devil never sleeps.
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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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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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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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Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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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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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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