Out of darkness is born the light.
CATHERINE OF SIENAOut of darkness is born the light.
CATHERINE OF SIENALord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
CATHERINE OF SIENAIt is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.
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 SIENALose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
CATHERINE OF SIENAToo great pity is the greatest cruelty.
CATHERINE OF SIENAHope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThere is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
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 SIENAA full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThe soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
CATHERINE OF SIENAYou will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.
CATHERINE OF SIENAThere is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
CATHERINE OF SIENADon’t make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth.
CATHERINE OF SIENAPerfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
CATHERINE OF SIENA