Catherine of Siena on heaven
Catherine of Siena80 quotes“Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.”
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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena To the servant of God… every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Out of darkness is born the light.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Obedient people never trust in themselves.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena One who knows more, loves more.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena We trust and believe in what we love.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena We’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 SienaCatherine of Siena Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good.
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More on heaven
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
BoethiusBoethius Don’t search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell.
Shams TabriziShams Tabrizi If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.
SaadiSaadi Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
BoethiusBoethius Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Lower your expectations of earth. This isn’t heaven, so don’t expect it to be.
Max LucadoMax Lucado Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity’s sake, Amen.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
Alfred Lord TennysonAlfred Lord Tennyson