St. Catherine of Siena Quotes
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The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
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A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
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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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Christ Jesus left you this sweet key of obedience; for He left His Vicar, whom you are all obliged to obey until death. And whoever is outside his obedience is in a state of damnation.
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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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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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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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Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire ever burning and never consumed, which itself consumes all the selfish love that fills my being.
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Wherefore, as I have said to you, I, God, have become man, and man has become God by the union of My Divine Nature with your human nature. This greatness is given in general to all rational creatures, but, among these I have especially chosen My ministers for the sake of your salvation, so that, through them, the Blood of the humble and immaculate Lamb, My only-begotten Son, may be administered to you.
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We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
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It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
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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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All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, "I am the way.
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O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself?
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It is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.
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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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Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
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The human heart is always drawn by love.
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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are stripped of material goods because they have renounced the world and all its pleasures and even their own will. These are the ones who fatten their souls, enlarging them in the abyss of my charity. Then I become their spiritual provider. The Holy Spirit becomes their servant.
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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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One who knows more, loves more.
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How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge! They gnaw away at themselves constantly, and they have killed themselves even before they kill their enemies.
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Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying of the body than he who does less, inasmuch as neither virtue nor merit consists therein; for otherwise he would be an evil case, who for some legitimate reason was unable to do actual penance. 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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Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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