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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Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.
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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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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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Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
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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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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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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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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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Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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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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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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The human heart is always drawn by love.
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
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Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
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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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A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to 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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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 human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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