St Catherine Siena Quotes
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St Catherine Siena Quotes & Sayings
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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
O abyss! O eternal Godhead! O deep sea! What more could you have given me than the gift of your very self?
— St. Catherine Of Siena
All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
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
You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
— St. Catherine Of Siena
A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
Love transforms one into what one loves.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
The devil never sleeps ...
— St. Catherine Of Siena
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
Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
— St. Catherine Of Siena
A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
One who knows more, loves more.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
Heaven is along the way.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
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
Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
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
It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
Out of darkness is born the light.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
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
The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
— St. Catherine Of Siena
Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
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
Obedient people never trust in themselves.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
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
Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God's sake.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
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
There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
— St. Catherine Of Siena
Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
Make yourself a "capacity" and I will make myself a "torrent."
— St. Catherine Of Siena
We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
To the servant of God ... every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself?
— St. Catherine Of Siena
People become like what they love.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
We trust and believe in what we love.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
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
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
You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
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
Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
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
Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
And let the truth be your delight ... Proclaim it ... , but with a certain congeniality.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
Love does not stay idle.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
It's one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
— St. Catherine Of Siena