A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAavarice 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 soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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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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One who knows more, loves more.
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All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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People become like what they love.
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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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The devil never sleeps.
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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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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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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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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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We’ve been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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