St. Catherine Of Siena Quotes

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?

We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.

It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.

God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.

Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.

For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.

all the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.

The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.

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.

The devil never sleeps.

... people become like what they love.

What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!

O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself?

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.

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.

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

Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.

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

Make yourself a "capacity" and I will make myself a "torrent."

O abyss! O eternal Godhead! O deep sea! What more could you have given me than the gift of your very self?

You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.

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

Obedient people never trust in themselves.

A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.

You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!

And let the truth be your delight...Proclaim it..., but with a certain congeniality.

too great pity is the greatest cruelty.

It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.

Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.

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

Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.

Heaven is along the way.

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

Love does not stay idle.

It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me God eternal apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.

Turn over the rudder in God's name, and sail with the wind heaven sends us.

To a brave man good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.

Lose yourself wholly and the more you lose the more you will find.

Take my heart and squeeze it out over the face of Your Bride, the Church.