St. Catherine of Siena famous quotes

Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Passion #Fire #Generosity

Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Fear #Freedom Of Speech #Telling The Truth

God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Water #Fishes

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.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Light #Brave #Darkness

To the servant of God... every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Faith #Inspiration #Servant

Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Success #Perseverance #Endure

Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Father #Giving #Soul

You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Love

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.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Lying #Father #Honor

Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Giving #Lord

Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Love #Men #Goal

The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Heart #Fire #Devil

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.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Jesus #Fighting #Enemy

One who knows more, loves more.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

Christ Jesus left you this sweet key of obedience; for He left His Vicar, whom you are all obliged to obey until death. And whoever is outside his obedience is in a state of damnation.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Sweet #Jesus #Keys

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Men #Hands #Brave

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.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Silence #Catholic #Rotten

There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Men #Giving #Saint

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...
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Faith #Selfish #Inspiration

Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Voice #Silence #World

We were enclosed, O eternal Father, within the garden of your breast. You drew us out of your holy mind like a flower petaled with our soul's three powers and into each power you put the whole plant, so that they might bear fruit in your garden, might come back to you with the fruit you gave them. And you would come back to the soul, to fill her with your blessedness. There the soul dwells like the fish in the sea and the sea in the fish.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Father #Flower #Garden

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
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Angel #Men #Fire

The human heart is always drawn by love.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Heart #Humans #Human Heart

Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Want #Littles #Little Things

Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Heaven #Steps #Way

O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself?
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Ocean #Giving #Deities

Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home . . . and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Faith #Spiritual #Daughter

Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Love #Sweet #Men

Out of darkness is born the light.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Light #Darkness #Born

This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are stripped of material goods because they have renounced the world and all its pleasures and even their own will. These are the ones who fatten their souls, enlarging them in the abyss of my charity. Then I become their spiritual provider. The Holy Spirit becomes their servant.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Faith #Spiritual #Inspiration

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.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Way #Would Be #Given

All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, "I am the way.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Jesus #Heaven #Way

It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Sin #Humans #Persist

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
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Fall #Men #Mad

The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Women #Devil

It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#God #Law #Impossible

Wherefore, as I have said to you, I, God, have become man, and man has become God by the union of My Divine Nature with your human nature. This greatness is given in general to all rational creatures, but, among these I have especially chosen My ministers for the sake of your salvation, so that, through them, the Blood of the humble and immaculate Lamb, My only-begotten Son, may be administered to you.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Humble #Son #Greatness

God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Soul #Lips #Veils

Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Strong #Hate #Cutting

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.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Home #His Love #Loving God

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

#What Is Love #Persons #Property

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Roots #Facts #Vices

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.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Positive #Hair #Gone

The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Lying #Heaven #Way

Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Men #Nails #Enough

Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Self Esteem #Perfection #Body

Consider God's charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Charity #Offended

We trust and believe in what we love.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Believe #Trust And Believe

Make yourself a "capacity" and I will make myself a "torrent."
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Faith #Inspiration #Capacity

Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Inspirational #Losing Yourself

And let the truth be your delight...Proclaim it..., but with a certain congeniality.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Truth #Delight #Certain

There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Mean #Perfect #Fruit

There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Desire #Want

Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Way #Made

Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Possession

The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Sea #Soul #Fishes

Love transforms one into what one loves.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#One Love

It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Perseverance #Devil #Sin

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 ...
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Pain #Revenge #Enemy

You are obliged to love your neighbor as yourself, and loving him, you ought to help him spiritually, with prayer, counseling him with words, and assisting him both spiritually and temporally, according to the need in which he may be, at least with your goodwill if you have nothing else.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Prayer #Love You #Needs

all the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Pride #Charity #Vices

avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Envy #Greed #Worms

... people become like what they love.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#People

You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Men #Giving #Office

too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Pity #Cruelty

Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#World

the devil never sleeps ...
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Sleep #Devil #Never Sleep

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.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Speaking Up #Earth #Complaining

O Trinity, eternal Trinity! Fire, abyss of love... Was it necessary that you should give Even the Holy Trinity as food for souls?... You gave us not only your Word Through the Redemption and in the Eucharist, But you also gave yourself In the fullness of love for your creature.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Fire #Giving #Soul

Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Faith #Father #Inspiration

Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Love #Light #Soul

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.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Father #Light #Sight

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.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Heart #Kissing #Suffering

You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Believe #Giving #Salvation

When it seems that God shows us the faults of others, keep on the safer side-it may be that your judgment is false. On your lips let silence abide. And any vice that you may ascribe to others, ascribe at once to them and yourself, in true humility. If that vice really exists in a person, he will correct himself better, seeing himself so gently understood, and will say of his own accord the thing that you would have said to him.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Humility #Silence #Saint

It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Light #Shadow

It is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Feels

No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying of the body than he who does less, inasmuch as neither virtue nor merit consists therein; for otherwise he would be an evil case, who for some legitimate reason was unable to do actual penance. Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Light #Evil #Giving

A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Love #Soul

Penance to be sure must be used as a tool, in due times and places, as need may be. If the flesh, being too strong, kicks against the spirit, penance takes the rod of discipline, and fast, and the cilice of many buds, and mighty vigils; and places burdens enough on the flesh, that it may be more subdued. But if the body is weak, fallen into illness, the rule of discretion does not approve of such a method.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Strong #Attachment #Discipline

Heaven is along the way.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Heaven #Way

Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
-- St. Catherine of Siena

#Honesty #Integrity #Character