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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAIt is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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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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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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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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The devil never sleeps.
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Out of darkness is born the light.
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The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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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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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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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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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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