It 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 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 SIENAWe’ve been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThere is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
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 SIENAPreach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
CATHERINE OF SIENAOh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAPonder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThere is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
CATHERINE OF SIENANothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.
CATHERINE OF SIENAGod is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
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 SIENALord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
CATHERINE OF SIENAProclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
CATHERINE OF SIENAGod is closer to us than water is to a fish.
CATHERINE OF SIENAEverything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
CATHERINE OF SIENA