There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
CATHERINE OF SIENA
CATHERINE OF SIENA
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Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
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Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena He 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.
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Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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