You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
CATHERINE OF SIENAYou must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
CATHERINE OF SIENAToo great pity is the greatest cruelty.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThere is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
CATHERINE OF SIENAWhat 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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAWhoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe human heart is always drawn by love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAConsider God’s charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?
CATHERINE OF SIENAPeople become like what they love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAAnd let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
CATHERINE OF SIENALet us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAGod is closer to us than water is to a fish.
CATHERINE OF SIENAEverything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
CATHERINE OF SIENAOne who knows more, loves more.
CATHERINE OF SIENAOf course you are unworthy. But when do you hope to be worthy? You will be no more worthy at the end than at the beginning. God alone is worthy of Himself, He alone can make us worthy of Him.
CATHERINE OF SIENAMake 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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