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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAPeople become like what they love.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge! They gnaw away at themselves constantly, and they have killed themselves even before they kill their enemies.
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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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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Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
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Consider God’s charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?
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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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Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
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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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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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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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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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