The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
CATHERINE OF SIENAOne who knows more, loves more.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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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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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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Out of darkness is born the light.
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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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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.
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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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Love does not stay idle.
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There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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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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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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