It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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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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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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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 transforms one into what one loves.
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We trust and believe in what we love.
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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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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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A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
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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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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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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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