Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
CATHERINE OF SIENALord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
CATHERINE OF SIENAGod is closer to us than water is to a fish.
CATHERINE OF SIENANothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
CATHERINE OF SIENALet us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
CATHERINE OF SIENAPonder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
CATHERINE OF SIENAHe will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.
CATHERINE OF SIENAAnd let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
CATHERINE OF SIENAConsider 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?
CATHERINE OF SIENAWe will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
CATHERINE OF SIENAYou 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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe devil never sleeps.
CATHERINE OF SIENADo not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
CATHERINE OF SIENAEnrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThere is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
CATHERINE OF SIENAA full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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