Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.
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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Consider 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?
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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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To the servant of God… every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.
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Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
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Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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One who knows more, loves more.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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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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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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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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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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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
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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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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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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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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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