For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
CATHERINE OF SIENAFor there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThere is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
CATHERINE OF SIENAEvery evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe human heart is always drawn by love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAPerfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
CATHERINE OF SIENAOh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAAll the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
CATHERINE OF SIENAWhoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
CATHERINE OF SIENAAnd let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.
CATHERINE OF SIENAWhat father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
CATHERINE OF SIENAPeople become like what they love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAIt’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
CATHERINE OF SIENABe who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
CATHERINE OF SIENADo not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
CATHERINE OF SIENANothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
CATHERINE OF SIENAIt is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
CATHERINE OF SIENA