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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAHope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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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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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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We trust and believe in what we love.
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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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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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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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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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avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good.
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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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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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People become like what they love.
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