Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
CATHERINE OF SIENAFather, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
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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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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
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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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Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and 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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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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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 human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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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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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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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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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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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.
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