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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAToo great pity is the greatest cruelty.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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The devil never sleeps.
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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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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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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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Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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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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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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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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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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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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