avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good.
CATHERINE OF SIENADo not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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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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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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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 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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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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Love does not stay idle.
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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
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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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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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