Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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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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There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
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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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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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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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You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.
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Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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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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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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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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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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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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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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