A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
CATHERINE OF SIENAIt is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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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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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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We trust and believe in what we love.
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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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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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Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.
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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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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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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.
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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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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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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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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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