Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
CATHERINE OF SIENAAll the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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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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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.
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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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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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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
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The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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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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Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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Out of darkness is born the light.
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One who knows more, loves more.
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People become like what they love.
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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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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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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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