We trust and believe in what we love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAWe trust and believe in what we love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAMake 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 SIENADon’t make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth.
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 SIENAThe strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
CATHERINE OF SIENAIt is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe 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 SIENAIt is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
CATHERINE OF SIENADo not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
CATHERINE OF SIENAA soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAAll the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.
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 SIENADo not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
CATHERINE OF SIENAAll the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThere is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
CATHERINE OF SIENAPerfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
CATHERINE OF SIENA