It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
CATHERINE OF SIENAEvery step of the way to heaven is heaven.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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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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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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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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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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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 will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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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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You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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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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The human heart is always drawn by love.
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Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
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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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Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
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You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.
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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
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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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