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Lose yourself wholly and the more you lose, the more you will find.

St. Catherine of Siena

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O You who are mad about Your creature! true God and true Man, You have left Yourself wholly to us, as food, so that we will not fall through weariness during our pilgrimage in this life, but will be fortified by You, celestial nourishment
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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Love does not stay idle.
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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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Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
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We trust and believe in what we love.
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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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The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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To the servant of God... every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.
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Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
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Strange that so much suffering is caused because of the misunderstandings of God's true nature. God's heart is more gentle than the Virgin's first kiss upon the Christ. And God's forgiveness to all, to any thought or act, is more certain than our own being.
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Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
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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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From self-knowledge flows the stream of humility, which never seizes on mere report, nor takes offense at anything, but bears every insult, every loss of consolation, and every sorry, from whatever direction they may come, patiently, with joy.
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The devil never sleeps.
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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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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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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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Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
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