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One who knows more, loves more.

St. Catherine of Siena

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And of what should we be afraid? Our captain on this battlefield is Christ Jesus. We have discovered what we have to do. Christ has bound our enemies for us and weakened them that they cannot overcome us unless we so choose to let them. So we must fight courageously and mark ourselves with the sign of the most Holy Cross.
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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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You [God] are a fire that takes away the coldness, illuminates the mind with its light, and causes me to know your truth and I know that you are beauty and wisdom itself. The food of angels, you give yourself to man in this fire of your love
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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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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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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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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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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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Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
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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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We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God's sake.
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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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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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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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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The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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