It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAOf 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.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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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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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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Out of darkness is born the light.
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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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There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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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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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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We’ve been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
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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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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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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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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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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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