Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
CATHERINE OF SIENASince love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.
CATHERINE OF SIENAPerfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
CATHERINE OF SIENAToo great pity is the greatest cruelty.
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 SIENALove does not stay idle.
CATHERINE OF SIENAWe will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
CATHERINE OF SIENAYou know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
CATHERINE OF SIENAAll the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
CATHERINE OF SIENAFor there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
CATHERINE OF SIENADo not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
CATHERINE OF SIENAEvery step of the way to heaven is heaven.
CATHERINE OF SIENAConsider God’s charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?
CATHERINE OF SIENAEnrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.
CATHERINE OF SIENAavarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good.
CATHERINE OF SIENAGod is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
CATHERINE OF SIENA