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.
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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAA soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
CATHERINE OF SIENALord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
CATHERINE OF SIENAA full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
CATHERINE OF SIENAConsider 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?
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
CATHERINE OF SIENANails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThere is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
CATHERINE OF SIENAIt is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
CATHERINE OF SIENAWhoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
CATHERINE OF SIENAIt’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
CATHERINE OF SIENADo not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
CATHERINE OF SIENAThere is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
CATHERINE OF SIENANothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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