A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAYou 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.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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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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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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Don’t make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth.
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We trust and believe in what we love.
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Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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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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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
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He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.
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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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