Love never stands alone but has her companions all the true solid virtues, because all the virtues have life from charity's love...And among love’s companions is patience, the very marrow of love and the clear sign of whether the soul is in grace and is loving in truth or not. This is why charity, the mother, has given obedience patience as a sister and has so joined the two together that the one can never be lost without the other. Either you have both or you have neither.
Obedience has a wet nurse, true humility, and the soul is as obedient as she is humble, and as humble as she is obedient.
Obedience has a wet nurse, true humility, and the soul is as obedient as she is humble, and as humble as she is obedient.
St. Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue
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