There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
CATHERINE OF SIENAEvery step of the way to heaven is heaven.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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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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One who knows more, loves more.
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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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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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A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.
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People become like what they love.
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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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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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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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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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Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
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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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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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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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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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Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
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