The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
CATHERINE OF SIENAHope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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Love does not stay idle.
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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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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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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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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.
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Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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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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A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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