Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.
CATHERINE OF SIENAWe will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
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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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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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We trust and believe in what we love.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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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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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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Out of darkness is born the light.
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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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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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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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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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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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