Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
CATHERINE OF SIENAIt is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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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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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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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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Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.
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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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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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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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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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