St. Catherine of Siena Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.”
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“Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.”
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“God is closer to us than water is to a fish.”
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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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“To the servant of God... every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.”
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“Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.”
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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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“You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.”
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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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“Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.”
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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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“The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.”
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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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“One who knows more, loves more.”
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“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.”
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“To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.”
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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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“There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.”
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“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...”
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“Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.”
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“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.”
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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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“The human heart is always drawn by love.”
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“Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!”
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“Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.”
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“O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself?”
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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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“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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“Out of darkness is born the light.”
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“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.”
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