The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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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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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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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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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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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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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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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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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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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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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It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
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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 path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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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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The devil never sleeps.
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Out of darkness is born the light.
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People become like what they love.
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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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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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Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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Consider God’s charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?
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There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.
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