Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
CATHERINE OF SIENAMake 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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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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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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People become like what they love.
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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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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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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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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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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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Every step of 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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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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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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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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The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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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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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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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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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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Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
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