You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
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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It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
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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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Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.
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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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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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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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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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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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One who knows more, loves more.
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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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It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.
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