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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.

Catherine of Siena

You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Failure Man Simplicity Yourself
A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Character Modesty Purity Spirit
Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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Body Kill Ourselves Perfection
You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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God Greatness Small Yourself
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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Cry Enough Myself See Silence World
It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
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Devil Human Perseverance Sin
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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Enemy Hungry Kill Pain Revenge
Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Alone Love Soul Virtue Worth
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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Carry Home Myself Spiritual
Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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Capacity Myself Yourself
God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Close God Ourselves Water
Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Kill Silence Truth Voice World
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.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Imagination Leaving Lose Way Yourself
And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Enjoyment Happiness Truth Yourself
We trust and believe in what we love.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Believe Love Trust
God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

Feeling God Himself Leaving Lips Soul

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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