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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAMake yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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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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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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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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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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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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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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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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We trust and believe in what we love.
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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 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.
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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.
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