You 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 SIENAToo great pity is the greatest cruelty.
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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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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A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
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Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
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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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One who knows more, loves more.
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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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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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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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Of 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.
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Don’t make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth.
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Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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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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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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The devil never sleeps.
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There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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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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You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
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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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