Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
CATHERINE OF SIENADon’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.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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To the servant of God… every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.
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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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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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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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The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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People become like what they love.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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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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The devil never sleeps.
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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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It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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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 will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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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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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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