The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
CATHERINE OF SIENAWhat father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
More Catherine of Siena Quotes
-
-
A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
CATHERINE OF SIENA -
Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
CATHERINE OF SIENA -
People become like what they love.
CATHERINE OF SIENA -
God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
CATHERINE OF SIENA -
avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good.
CATHERINE OF SIENA -
Obedient people never trust in themselves.
CATHERINE OF SIENA -
Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
CATHERINE OF SIENA -
It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
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.
CATHERINE OF SIENA -
Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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.
CATHERINE OF SIENA -
Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
CATHERINE OF SIENA -
You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
CATHERINE OF SIENA -
For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
CATHERINE OF SIENA -
We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
CATHERINE OF SIENA






