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.
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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Love does not stay idle.
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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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The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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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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The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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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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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
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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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Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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The human heart is always drawn by love.
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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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Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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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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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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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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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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