Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
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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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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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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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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One who knows more, loves more.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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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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It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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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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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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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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