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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAStart being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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One who knows more, loves more.
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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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Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
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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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The human heart is always drawn by love.
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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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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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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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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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