St. Catherine of Siena Quotes - Page 3

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.

Obedient people never trust in themselves.

To join two things together there must be nothing between them or there cannot be a perfect fusion. Now realize that this is how God wants our soul to be, without any selfish love of ourselves or of others in between, just as God loves us without anything in between.

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

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

The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.

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?

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.

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

He has never left you.It is justthat your soul is so vastthat just likethe earth in its innocence,it may think,"I do not feel my lover's warmthagainst my face rightnow."But look, dear,is not the sun reaching down its armsand always holding a continentin its light?God cannot leave us.It is just that our soul is so vast,we do not always feel His lipsupon theveil.

Out of darkness is born the light.

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

Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.

The city is the image of the soul, the surrounding walls being the frontier between the outward and inward life. The gates are the faculties or senses connecting the life of the soul with the outward world. Living springs of water rise within it. And in the centre, where beats the heart, stands the holy sanctuary.

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

A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.

Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God's sake.

O fire of love! Was it not enough for You to have created us to Your image and likeness, and to have recreated us in grace through the Blood of Your Son, without giving Yourself wholly to us as our Food, O God, Divine Essence? What impelled You to do this? Your charity alone.

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

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

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

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

We trust and believe in what we love.

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