Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
CATHERINE OF SIENAMerit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
CATHERINE OF SIENAOh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAOut of darkness is born the light.
CATHERINE OF SIENAGod cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe human heart is always drawn by love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAIt is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
CATHERINE OF SIENAWhat is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.
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 SIENADo not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
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 SIENAYou, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
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 SIENATo the servant of God… every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.
CATHERINE OF SIENAYou must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
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 SIENA