The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
CATHERINE OF SIENAIt is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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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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We trust and believe in what we love.
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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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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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Love transforms one into what one 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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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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To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
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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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The human heart is always drawn by love.
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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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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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To the servant of God… every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.
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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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One who knows more, loves more.
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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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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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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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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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How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge! They gnaw away at themselves constantly, and they have killed themselves even before they kill their enemies.
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What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.
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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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Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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