Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
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.
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To the servant of God… every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.
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The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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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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All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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God 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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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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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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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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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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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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Consider God’s charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?
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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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