Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThere is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
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The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
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To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
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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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God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
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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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Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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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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The human heart is always drawn by love.
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Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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Obedient people never trust in themselves.
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Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
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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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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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People become like what they love.
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One who knows more, loves more.
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Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
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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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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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It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
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The devil never sleeps.
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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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