Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
CATHERINE OF SIENAIt is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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We’ve been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
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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 sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
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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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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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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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Of course you are unworthy. But when do you hope to be worthy? You will be no more worthy at the end than at the beginning. God alone is worthy of Himself, He alone can make us worthy of Him.
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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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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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We trust and believe in what we love.
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