The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
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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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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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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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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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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People become like what they love.
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Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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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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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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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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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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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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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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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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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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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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To the servant of God… every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.
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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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Love does not stay idle.
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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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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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