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Obedient people never trust in themselves.

Catherine of Siena

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.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Cry Enough Myself See Silence World
It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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Light Oneself Shadow
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
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Bad Brave Goodness Himself Man
Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.
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God Goodness Greatness Himself Holy Rich Soul Spirit Yourself
Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
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Hate Lose Love Milk Ourselves
And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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Enjoyment Happiness Truth Yourself
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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Body Change Face God Love Yourself
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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Brave Darkness Drive Light Reward Weakness Yourself
The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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Creature Devil Himself Place
Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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Gratitude Obedience
There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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Desire God Religious
Love does not stay idle.
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Love One Liner Stay
He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.
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Imagination Leaving Lose Way Yourself
Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
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Hope Love People Trust
You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
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Love Measurement Reward Time Yourself
Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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Creation God Love Ourselves
Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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Body Kill Ourselves Perfection
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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Angry Hell Life Patience Sin Wrong
Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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Himself Love World
Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
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Father Food God Herself Love Soul
The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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Heaven Path Religious Way
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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Enough God Himself Hold Man
It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
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Devil Human Perseverance Sin
God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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God Sin Sorry
It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.
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Forever Impossible Law Yourself
Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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Fact God Plant Root Vice Virtue 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

Obedient people never trust in themselves.

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