The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
CATHERINE OF SIENAAll the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
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The human heart is always drawn by love.
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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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There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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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.
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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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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 know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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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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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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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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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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One who knows more, loves more.
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