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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Out of darkness is born the light.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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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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Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
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It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
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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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Love does not stay idle.
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It is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.
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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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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
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You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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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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