Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
CATHERINE OF SIENAEvery step of the way to heaven is heaven.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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We’ve had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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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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Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
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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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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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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
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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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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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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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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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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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