It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
CATHERINE OF SIENALord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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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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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.
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Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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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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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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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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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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You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
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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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