Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
CATHERINE OF SIENAOh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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To the servant of God… every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.
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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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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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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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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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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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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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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
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