Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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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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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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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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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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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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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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Love does not stay idle.
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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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To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
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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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