Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
CATHERINE OF SIENAMake yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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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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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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People become like what they love.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
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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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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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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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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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The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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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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