The human heart is always drawn by love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAIt’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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Love does not stay idle.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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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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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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Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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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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Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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We’ve been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
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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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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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The devil never sleeps.
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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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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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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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It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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Out of darkness is born the light.
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We trust and believe in what we love.
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