The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
CATHERINE OF SIENAPeople become like what they love.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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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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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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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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Love does not stay idle.
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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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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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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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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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Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
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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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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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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
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The human heart is always drawn by love.
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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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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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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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Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
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There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
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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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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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