Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
CATHERINE OF SIENADo not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
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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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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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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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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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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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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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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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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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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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We trust and believe in what we love.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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