Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
CATHERINE OF SIENAFor there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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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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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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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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Out of darkness is born the light.
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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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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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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
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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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Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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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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We trust and believe in what we love.
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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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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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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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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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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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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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