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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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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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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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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Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
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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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There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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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 strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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One who knows more, loves more.
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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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