Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
CATHERINE OF SIENAEverything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
CATHERINE OF SIENAIt is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
CATHERINE OF SIENAOf course you are unworthy. But when do you hope to be worthy? You will be no more worthy at the end than at the beginning. God alone is worthy of Himself, He alone can make us worthy of Him.
CATHERINE OF SIENAMake yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
CATHERINE OF SIENAPonder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
CATHERINE OF SIENALove does not stay idle.
CATHERINE OF SIENAYou must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
CATHERINE OF SIENAYou, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
CATHERINE OF SIENAAll the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
CATHERINE OF SIENAWe will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
CATHERINE OF SIENAGod is closer to us than water is to a fish.
CATHERINE OF SIENAFor there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
CATHERINE OF SIENANails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.
CATHERINE OF SIENAYou are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
CATHERINE OF SIENA