Catherine of Siena - Soul Quotes

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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.

Catherine 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.

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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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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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