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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.

Catherine of Siena

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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Charity Creation God Man Soul Sweet
The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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Herself Love Reach Soul
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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Deep God Thinking Way
A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
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Creation Live Soul
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
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
All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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Charity Pride Season Vice Virtue
What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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Death Father Gave Up Himself Slave
There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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Exercise Ourselves Perfection Virtue
People become like what they love.
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Love People Transformation
How 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.
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Enemy Hungry Kill Pain Revenge
The devil never sleeps.
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Devil One Liner Sleep
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
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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Complain Earth Greatness Necessary Yourself
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
avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good.
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Goodness Jealous Worm

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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