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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.

Catherine of Siena

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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Goodness Jealous Worm
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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Charity God Himself Life Offend Pay See
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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Complain Earth Greatness Necessary Yourself
Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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Gratitude Obedience
A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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Character Modesty Purity Spirit
It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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Light Oneself Shadow
We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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Character Humble Obedience
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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Enemy Hungry Kill Pain Revenge
God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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God Sin Sorry
All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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Destination Heaven Journey Myself Religious Way
The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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Admire Oneself Purity Strong
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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Angry Hell Life Patience Sin Wrong
What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.
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Body Change Face God Love Yourself
It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
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Love Person Property
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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Alone God Himself Inspirational Self Love Value Worth
There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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Desire God Religious

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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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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