Catherine of Siena > Quotes

“Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.”
― St. Catherine of Siena

“Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.”
― St. Catherine of Siena

“Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.”
― St. Catherine of Siena

“All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, "I am the way.”
― St. Catherine of Siena

“If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire!”
― St. Catherine of Siena

“We've had enough exhortations to be silent. Cry out with a thousand tongues - I see the world is rotten because of silence.”
― St. Catherine of Siena

“Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.”
― St Catherine of Siena

“Speak the truth in a million voices. It is silence that kills.”
― Catherine of Siena (14th Century)

“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, The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena

“Love follows knowledge.”
― St. Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena

“the soul always fears until she arrives at true love.”
― Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue of Saint Catherine of Siena

“These tiny ants have proceeded from His thought just as much as I, it caused Him just as much trouble to create the angels as these animals and the flowers on the trees.”
― Catherine of Siena

“Turn over the rudder in God's name, and sail with the wind heaven sends us.”
― Catherine of Siena

“Be who you were created to be, and you will set the world on fire.”
― St. Catherine of Siena

“Be strong and kill yourself with the sword of hate and love, then you will not hear the insults and abuse which the enemies of the Church throw at you. Your eyes will not see anything which seems impossible, or the sufferings which may follow, but only the light of faith, and in that light everything is possible; and remember God never lays greater burdens on us than we can bear.”
― Catherine of Siena

“It is surely justice to share our natural gifts with those who share our nature.”
― Catherine of Siena, Top 7 Catholic Classics: On Loving God, The Cloud of Unknowing, Dialogue of Saint Catherine of Siena, The Imitation of Christ, Interior Castle, Dark Night ... of God

“You know that every evil is founded in self-love, and that self-love is a cloud that takes away the light of reason, which reason holds in itself the light of faith, and one is not lost without the other.”
― Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue of Saint Catherine of Siena

“Otherwise you fall into contempt of your neighbor, if you judge his evil will towards you, instead of My will acting in him.”
― Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue of Saint Catherine of Siena

“If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire.”
― St. Catherine of Siena

“I had not been able to show, by finite things, because My love was infinite, how much more love I had, I wished you to see the secret of the Heart,”
― Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue of Saint Catherine of Siena

“Take my heart and squeeze it out over the face of Your Bride, the Church.”
― Catherine of Siena

“believe no happiness can be found worthy to be compared with that of a soul in Purgatory except that of the saints in Paradise. And day by day this happiness grows as God flows into these souls, more and more as the hindrance to His entrance is consumed. Sin's rust is the hindrance, and the fire burns the rust away so that more and more the soul opens itself up to the divine inflowing.”
― Catherine of Siena, Fire of Love!: Understanding Purgatory

“The Devil, dearest daughter, is the instrument of My Justice to torment the souls who have miserably offended Me. And I have set him in this life to tempt and molest My creatures, not for My creatures to be conquered, but that they may conquer, proving their virtue, and receive from Me the glory of victory. And no one should fear any battle or temptation of the Devil that may come to him, because I have made My creatures strong, and have given them strength of will, fortified in the Blood of my Son, which will, neither Devil nor creature can move, because it is yours, given by Me.”
― Catherine of Siena, Dialog of Catherine of Siena - Enhanced Version

“The sign that you have this virtue is patience, and impatience the sign that you have it not, and you will find that this is indeed so, when I speak to you further concerning this virtue.”
― Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue of Saint Catherine of Siena

“Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.”
― Catherine of Siena

“knoweth things as they are and not as they are said or seem to be, he truly is wise, and is taught of God more than of men. He who knoweth”
― Catherine of Siena, Top 7 Catholic Classics: On Loving God, The Cloud of Unknowing, Dialogue of Saint Catherine of Siena, The Imitation of Christ, Interior Castle, Dark Night ... of God

“say, you are all obliged to help one another by word and doctrine, and the example of good works, and in every other respect in which your neighbor may be seen to be in need; counseling him exactly as you would yourselves,”
― Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue of Saint Catherine of Siena

“So you see that the eye of the intellect has received supernatural light, infused by grace, by which the doctors and saints knew light in darkness, and of darkness made light.”
― Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue of Saint Catherine of Siena

“Suffering and sorrow increase in proportion to love: When love grows, so does sorrow.”
― Catherine of Siena, Catherine of Siena: The Dialogue

“Our Lord hates above all things three abominable sins: covetousness, unchastity and pride.”
― Catherine of Siena