Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
CATHERINE OF SIENAConsider your possessions loaned to you by God.
CATHERINE OF SIENANothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
CATHERINE OF SIENALord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
CATHERINE OF SIENAWe’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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAYou will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.
CATHERINE OF SIENAPonder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
CATHERINE OF SIENAEverything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
CATHERINE OF SIENAMerit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
CATHERINE OF SIENAIt’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAWe trust and believe in what we love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
CATHERINE OF SIENAPerfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
CATHERINE OF SIENAGod is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
CATHERINE OF SIENAIt is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.
CATHERINE OF SIENAHe 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.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThere is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
CATHERINE OF SIENA