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Catherine of Siena

The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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Creature Devil Himself Place
Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
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Kill Silence Truth Voice World
You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.
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Failure Man Simplicity Yourself
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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God Sea Soul
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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Enough God Himself Hold Man
For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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Charity Humility Obedience
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.
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Cry Enough Myself See Silence World
Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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Creation God Love Ourselves
Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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Obedience One Liner People Trust
Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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Himself Love World
Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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Gratitude Obedience
And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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Enjoyment Happiness Truth Yourself
Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
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Hate Lose Love Milk Ourselves
Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
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Charity Creation God Man Soul Sweet
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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Carry Home Myself Spiritual
There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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Exercise Ourselves Perfection Virtue

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