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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

Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Alone Love Soul Virtue Worth
Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Body Kill Ourselves Perfection
God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Feeling God Himself Leaving Lips Soul
The devil never sleeps.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Devil One Liner Sleep
All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Charity Pride Season Vice Virtue
Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Achievement Endurance Greatness
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.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Cry Enough Myself See Silence World
It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Love Person Property
Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Hate Lose Love Milk Ourselves
He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Imagination Leaving Lose Way Yourself
You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Love Measurement Reward Time Yourself
There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Exercise Ourselves Perfection Virtue
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.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Body Change Face God Love Yourself
Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Carry Home Myself Spiritual
avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Goodness Jealous Worm
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.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Deep God Thinking 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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