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Love transforms one into what one loves.

St. Catherine of Siena

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Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.
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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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It's one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
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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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all the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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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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Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
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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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To the servant of God... every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.
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Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home . . . and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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We are of such value to God that He came to live among us... and to guide us home. He will go to any length to seek us, even to being lifted high upon the cross to draw us back to Himself. We can only respond by loving God for His love.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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