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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.

Catherine of Siena

All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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Charity Pride Season Vice Virtue
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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Enemy Hungry Kill Pain Revenge
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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Charity God Himself Life Offend Pay See
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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Imagination Leaving Lose Way Yourself
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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Failure Man Simplicity Yourself
It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
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Love Person Property
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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Feeling God Himself Leaving Lips Soul
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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Body Change Face God Love Yourself
What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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Death Father Gave Up Himself Slave
God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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God Sin Sorry
It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
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Devil Human Perseverance Sin
avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good.
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Goodness Jealous Worm
All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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Destination Heaven Journey Myself Religious Way
Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.
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Carry Home Myself Spiritual
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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Complain Earth Greatness Necessary Yourself
And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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Enjoyment Happiness Truth Yourself

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