Catherine of Siena Quotes

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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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The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.

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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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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.

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To join two things together there must be nothing between them or there cannot be a perfect fusion. Now realize that this is how God wants our soul to be, without any selfish love of ourselves or of others in between, just as God loves us without anything in between.

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O abyss! O eternal Godhead! O deep sea! What more could you have given me than the gift of your very self?

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In your nature, eternal Godhead, I shall come to know my nature. And what is my nature? It is fire, because you are nothing but a fire of love. And you have given humankind a share in this nature, for by the fire of love you created us.

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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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It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.

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I know well that neither the devil nor anyone else can ever kill me except with my own sword.

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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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Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.

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Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.

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Avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.

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You are obliged to love your neighbor as yourself, and loving him, you ought to help him spiritually, with prayer, counseling him with words, and assisting him both spiritually and temporally, according to the need in which he may be, at least with your goodwill if you have nothing else.

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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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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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You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.

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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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There is no sin nor wrong that gives a man such a foretaste of hell in this life as anger and impatience.

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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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The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.

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To the true servant of God every place is the right place and every time is the right time.

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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.

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