You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
CATHERINE OF SIENAIt is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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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You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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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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Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
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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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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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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
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