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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.

Catherine of Siena

It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Human Persistence Sin
You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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Believe God Truth Yourself
It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
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Love Person Property
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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Body Change Face God Love Yourself
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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Deep God Thinking Way
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
Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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Fact God Plant Root Vice Virtue Yourself
Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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Himself Love World
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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Alone God Himself Inspirational Self Love Value Worth
Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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Gratitude Obedience
All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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Charity Pride Season Vice Virtue
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
Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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Obedience One Liner People Trust
avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good.
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Goodness Jealous Worm
Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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Lose Philosophy Yourself
Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
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Choice Myself Service Way

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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