Catherine of Siena - Love Quotes

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

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

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

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