We’ve had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.
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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It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
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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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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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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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The devil never sleeps.
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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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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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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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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
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It is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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Out of darkness is born the light.
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