All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
CATHERINE OF SIENAHow 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.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.
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The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
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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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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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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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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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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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One who knows more, loves more.
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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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A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
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You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
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It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
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Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
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