Don’t make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth.
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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Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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The human heart is always drawn by love.
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avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good.
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People become like what they love.
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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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Of course you are unworthy. But when do you hope to be worthy? You will be no more worthy at the end than at the beginning. God alone is worthy of Himself, He alone can make us worthy of Him.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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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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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.
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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
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