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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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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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Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
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God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.
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Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
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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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Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
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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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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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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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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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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
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The devil never sleeps.
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The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
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God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.
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What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
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Father, I am hungry for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
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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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all the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
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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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