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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAMake yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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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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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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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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One who knows more, loves more.
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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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Out of darkness is born the light.
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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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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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All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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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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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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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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Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.
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You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.
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We trust and believe in what we love.
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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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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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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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There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
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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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