Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
CATHERINE OF SIENACharity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
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 SIENAHope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
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 SIENAIt is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
CATHERINE OF SIENAHow 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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThere is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
CATHERINE OF SIENAYou, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
CATHERINE OF SIENALord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThere is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
CATHERINE OF SIENAYou are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe devil never sleeps.
CATHERINE OF SIENAPreach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
CATHERINE OF SIENAA full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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