avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good.
CATHERINE OF SIENALove transforms one into what one loves.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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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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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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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’ve been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
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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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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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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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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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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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We’ve had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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You 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.
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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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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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