There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
CATHERINE OF SIENAGod is closer to us than water is to a fish.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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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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Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
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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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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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A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
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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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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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We trust and believe in what we love.
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It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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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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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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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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