It is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.
CATHERINE OF SIENAYou must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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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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What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.
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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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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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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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The human heart is always drawn by love.
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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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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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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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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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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