Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
CATHERINE OF SIENAObedient people never trust in themselves.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
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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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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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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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The devil never sleeps.
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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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Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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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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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
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