avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good.
CATHERINE OF SIENAPreach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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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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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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To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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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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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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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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Out of darkness is born the light.
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Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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