For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
CATHERINE OF SIENASince love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
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People become like what they love.
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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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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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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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.
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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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