Top 100 Quotes About Siena
#1. Remember the wise words of Saint Catherine of Siena: "If you are what you should be, you will set the world on fire!
Brett Brannen
#2. Julie went to her hotel room window to check that the Campo, the central square of Siena, Italy, was still out there.
Candida Martinelli
#3. St. Catherine of Siena once said, 'If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze.' But," I turned to him urgently, "how can I even light a single candle if someone blocks off the first step?
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
#4. Years ago, when I was in Siena for the first time, I saw the works of Duccio, whose deeply emotional painting from the thirteenth century has never left me.
Siri Hustvedt
#5. I was in Siena and decided I wanted to write a story set there. Then I discovered that the original story of Romeo and Juliet was set in Siena. It occurred to me that this was too much of a gift - I had to do it. That's how I ended up writing a parallel story to Romeo and Juliet.
Anne Fortier
#6. Prayer is a pasturage, a field, wherein all the virtues find their nourishment, growth, and strength. - ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA.
Various
#7. In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.
Sherman Alexie
#8. Verona is a very beautiful city, but Siena just never ceases to fascinate me.
Anne Fortier
#9. All the way to Heaven is Heaven", said Saint Catherine of Siena. We
Peter Kreeft
#10. Even as you seek a virtuous, fair, and good spouse, ... it is fitting that you should be the same. - Saint Bernardino of Siena
Jason Evert
#11. Catherine [of Siena] sent the Pope five oranges which she had candied and covered with gold leaf ... She develops the theme of the difference between the bitter and the sweet pain, and gives the Pope a recipe for making candied oranges.
Sigrid Undset
#12. Be glad. Celebrate! Lose your mindless fear, and take courage today. No, don't ever be afraid, no matter what's happened to you before. That's right, don't be afraid, no matter what you may see coming. Take courage because Christ was crucified for you.2 Catherine of Siena, Letters
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#13. I always dreamt that I would marry in the Piazza Del Campo in Siena and go on my honeymoon down the Amazon, up the Nile, on a gallop through the pyramids, to Nepal and Kerala, on a safari and finally to Lake Titicaca in Peru.
Jasmine Guinness
#14. All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, I am the way.
Catherine Of Siena
#16. The last degree of love is when He gave Himself to us to be our Food; because He gave Himself to be united with us in every way.
Bernardino Of Siena
#18. A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#19. Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don' look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#21. Eternal Trinity ... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire ever burning and never consumed, which itself consumes all the selfish love that fills my being ...
St. Catherine Of Siena
#22. These tiny ants have proceeded from His thought just as much as I, it caused Him just as much trouble to create the angels as these animals and the flowers on the trees.
Catherine Of Siena
#23. Strange that so much suffering is caused because of the misunderstandings of God's true nature. God's heart is more gentle than the Virgin's first kiss upon the Christ. And God's forgiveness to all, to any thought or act, is more certain than our own being.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#24. You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#28. It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#29. O abyss! O eternal Godhead! O deep sea! What more could you have given me than the gift of your very self?
St. Catherine Of Siena
#30. Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God's sake.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#32. There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#34. You are obliged to love your neighbor as yourself, and loving him, you ought to help him spiritually, with prayer, counseling him with words, and assisting him both spiritually and temporally, according to the need in which he may be, at least with your goodwill if you have nothing else.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#35. To join two things together there must be nothing between them or there cannot be a perfect fusion. Now realize that this is how God wants our soul to be, without any selfish love of ourselves or of others in between, just as God loves us without anything in between.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#37. What 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.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#38. We'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.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#42. Otherwise you fall into contempt of your neighbor, if you judge his evil will towards you, instead of My will acting in him.
Catherine Of Siena
#43. I had not been able to show, by finite things, because My love was infinite, how much more love I had, I wished you to see the secret of the Heart,
Catherine Of Siena
#46. O Trinity, eternal Trinity! Fire, abyss of love ... Was it necessary that you should give Even the Holy Trinity as food for souls? ... You gave us not only your Word Through the Redemption and in the Eucharist, But you also gave yourself In the fullness of love for your creature.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#47. Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#48. 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.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#51. He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#54. You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#55. Don'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.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#56. You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#58. To the servant of God ... every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#59. Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
Catherine Of Siena
#61. From self-knowledge flows the stream of humility, which never seizes on mere report, nor takes offense at anything, but bears every insult, every loss of consolation, and every sorry, from whatever direction they may come, patiently, with joy.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#62. You 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.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#63. Avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#65. Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#68. O fire of love! Was it not enough for You to have created us to Your image and likeness, and to have recreated us in grace through the Blood of Your Son, without giving Yourself wholly to us as our Food, O God, Divine Essence? What impelled You to do this? Your charity alone.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#69. O my soul, what are you doing? Are you not aware that God sees you always? You can never hide yourself from His sight. O Father, have pity on us because we are blind and in darkness. Drive out the darkness and give me light. Melt the ice of my self-love and kindle in me the fire of Your charity.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#71. And let the truth be your delight ... Proclaim it ... , but with a certain congeniality.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#74. Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home ... and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#75. All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#76. Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#77. Consider 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?
St. Catherine Of Siena
#78. Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#80. So you see that the eye of the intellect has received supernatural light, infused by grace, by which the doctors and saints knew light in darkness, and of darkness made light.
Catherine Of Siena
#81. O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself?
St. Catherine Of Siena
#83. You must know that when you 'hail' Mary, she immediately greets you! Don't think that she is one of those rude women of whom there are so many-on the contrary, she is utterly courteous and pleasant. If you greet her, she will answer you right away and converse with you!
Bernardino Of Siena
#84. There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#85. In your nature, eternal Godhead, I shall come to know my nature. And what is my nature? It is fire, because you are nothing but a fire of love. And you have given humankind a share in this nature, for by the fire of love you created us.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#86. Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#87. It is surely justice to share our natural gifts with those who share our nature.
Catherine Of Siena
#88. O You who are mad about Your creature! true God and true Man, You have left Yourself wholly to us, as food, so that we will not fall through weariness during our pilgrimage in this life, but will be fortified by You, celestial nourishment
St. Catherine Of Siena
#89. The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#90. I also wish you to look at the Bridge of My only-begotten Son, and see the greatness thereof, for it reaches from Heaven to earth, that is, that the earth of your humanity is joined to the greatness of the Deity thereby.
Catherine Of Siena
#91. Enrich 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.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#92. The sign that you have this virtue is patience, and impatience the sign that you have it not, and you will find that this is indeed so, when I speak to you further concerning this virtue.
Catherine Of Siena
#94. You [God] are a fire that takes away the coldness, illuminates the mind with its light, and causes me to know your truth and I know that you are beauty and wisdom itself. The food of angels, you give yourself to man in this fire of your love
St. Catherine Of Siena
#96. If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire!
Catherine Of Siena
#98. We've had enough exhortations to be silent. Cry out with a thousand tongues - I see the world is rotten because of silence.
Catherine Of Siena
#99. Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
St. Catherine Of Siena
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