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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAGod 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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To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
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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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The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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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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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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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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Love does not stay idle.
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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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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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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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