One who knows more, loves more.
CATHERINE OF SIENAOne who knows more, loves more.
CATHERINE OF SIENAMerit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
CATHERINE OF SIENAA full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
CATHERINE OF SIENAGod is closer to us than water is to a fish.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe 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 SIENAHow 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.
CATHERINE OF SIENADo not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
CATHERINE OF SIENADo not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
CATHERINE OF SIENAYou will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.
CATHERINE OF SIENAWe’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 SIENAIt is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThere is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
CATHERINE OF SIENAHope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAWhoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
CATHERINE OF SIENAAnd let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
CATHERINE OF SIENALove transforms one into what one loves.
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