Catherine Of Siena Quotes
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.
You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
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.
To the servant of God... every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.
A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.
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.
Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.
Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home . . . and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.
Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
Of course you are unworthy. But when do you hope to be worthy? You will be no more worthy at the end than at the beginning. God alone is worthy of Himself, He alone can make us worthy of Him.
Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
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.
The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God's sake.
Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
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.
The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
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.
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.
The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
