Love does not stay idle.
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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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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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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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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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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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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Of course you are unworthy. But when do you hope to be worthy? You will be no more worthy at the end than at the beginning. God alone is worthy of Himself, He alone can make us worthy of Him.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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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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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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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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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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All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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