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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

Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
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Goal God Love Man Mindset
It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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Human Persistence Sin
Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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Himself Love World
Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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Achievement Endurance Greatness
God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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God Sin Sorry
Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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Evil Harm Life Rich Suffering
It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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Light Oneself Shadow
It is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.
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Feeling Love Nature
Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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God Possession Yourself
Consider God’s charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?
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Charity God Himself Life Offend Pay See
Don’t make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth.
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Complain Earth Greatness Necessary Yourself
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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Feeling God Himself Leaving Lips Soul
Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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Cruelty Greatness One Liner
Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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Home Knowledge Ourselves
How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge! They gnaw away at themselves constantly, and they have killed themselves even before they kill their enemies.
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Enemy Hungry Kill Pain Revenge
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

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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