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It's one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.

St. Catherine of Siena

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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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For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
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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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Love transforms one into what one loves.
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Even if [the Pope an incarnate devil], we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to rest on his bosom... He who rebels against our Father is condemned to death, for that which we do to him we do to Christ: we honor Christ if we honor the Pope we dishonor Christ if we dishonor the Pope.
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The human heart is always drawn by love.
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It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God's sake.
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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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Of course you are unworthy. But when do you hope to be worthy? You will be no more worthy at the end than at the beginning. God alone is worthy of Himself, He alone can make us worthy of Him.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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Love does not stay idle.
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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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O abyss! O eternal Godhead! O deep sea! What more could you have given me than the gift of your very self?
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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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We trust and believe in what we love.
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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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There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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O my soul, what are you doing? Are you not aware that God sees you always? You can never hide yourself from His sight. O Father, have pity on us because we are blind and in darkness. Drive out the darkness and give me light. Melt the ice of my self-love and kindle in me the fire of Your charity.
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