Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
CATHERINE OF SIENAAnd let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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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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There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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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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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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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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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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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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The devil never sleeps.
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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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Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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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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Love does not stay idle.
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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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