Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
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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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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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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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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Out of darkness is born the light.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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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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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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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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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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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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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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