Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
CATHERINE OF SIENAGod is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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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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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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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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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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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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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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