Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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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.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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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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Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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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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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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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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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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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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One who knows more, loves more.
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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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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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Love does not stay idle.
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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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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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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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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