Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
CATHERINE OF SIENAObedience shows whether you are grateful.
CATHERINE OF SIENASince love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
CATHERINE OF SIENAMake two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.
CATHERINE OF SIENAProclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
CATHERINE OF SIENAYou are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThere is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
CATHERINE OF SIENAGod is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
CATHERINE OF SIENAToo great pity is the greatest cruelty.
CATHERINE OF SIENAIt is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.
CATHERINE OF SIENATo a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
CATHERINE OF SIENAHow 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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAIt is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
CATHERINE OF SIENAOf 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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAYou, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
CATHERINE OF SIENAAnd let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
CATHERINE OF SIENAA soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
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