Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
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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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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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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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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We trust and believe in what we love.
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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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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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We’ve had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.
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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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One who knows more, loves more.
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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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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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