Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
CATHERINE OF SIENAA full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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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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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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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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All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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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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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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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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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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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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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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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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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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It is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.
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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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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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Love does not stay idle.
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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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