The devil never sleeps.
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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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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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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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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He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.
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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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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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Don’t make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth.
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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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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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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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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One who knows more, loves more.
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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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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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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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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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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
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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, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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