Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
CATHERINE OF SIENAMerit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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Of 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.
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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Love does not stay idle.
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Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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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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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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Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
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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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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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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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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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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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