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?
CATHERINE OF SIENATo the servant of God… every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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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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To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
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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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The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
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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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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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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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There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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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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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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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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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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