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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.

Catherine of Siena

The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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Creature Devil Himself Place
Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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Body Kill Ourselves Perfection
All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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Charity Pride Season Vice Virtue
How 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.
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Enemy Hungry Kill Pain Revenge
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.
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Imagination Leaving Lose Way Yourself
You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
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Love Measurement Reward Time Yourself
And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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Enjoyment Happiness Truth Yourself
All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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Destination Heaven Journey Myself Religious Way
Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
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Hate Lose Love Milk Ourselves
Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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Capacity Myself Yourself
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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Alone Love Soul Virtue Worth
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.
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Complain Earth Greatness Necessary Yourself
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.
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Body Change Face God Love Yourself
The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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Admire Oneself Purity Strong
You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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Believe God Truth Yourself
Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
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Father Food God Herself Love Soul

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