Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
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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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Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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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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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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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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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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There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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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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One who knows more, loves more.
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