Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
CATHERINE OF SIENAEnrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.
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It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
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God is closer to us than water is to a 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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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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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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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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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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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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We’ve been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
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Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.
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There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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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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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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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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