It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
CATHERINE OF SIENAWe’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.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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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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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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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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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
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One who knows more, loves more.
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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People become like what they love.
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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
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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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Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
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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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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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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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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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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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