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.
CATHERINE OF SIENALord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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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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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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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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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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We’ve had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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