Top 85 St Catherine Of Siena Quotes

#1. Prayer is a pasturage, a field, wherein all the virtues find their nourishment, growth, and strength. - ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA.

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#2. 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?

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#3. 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

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#4. Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.

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#5. Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.

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#6. 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.

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#7. There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.

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#8. O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself?

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#9. To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

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#10. Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.

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#11. 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?

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#12. Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.

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#13. All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.

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#14. Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home ... and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.

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#15. The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.

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#16. Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.

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#17. And let the truth be your delight ... Proclaim it ... , but with a certain congeniality.

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#18. The devil never sleeps ...

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#19. 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.

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#20. 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.

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#21. Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!

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#22. It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.

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#23. What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!

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#24. Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist

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#25. The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.

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#26. We are of such value to God that He came to live among us ... and to guide us home. He will go to any length to seek us, even to being lifted high upon the cross to draw us back to Himself. We can only respond by loving God for His love.

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#27. Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.

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#28. Heaven is along the way.

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#29. People become like what they love.

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#30. It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.

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#31. Christ Jesus left you this sweet key of obedience; for He left His Vicar, whom you are all obliged to obey until death. And whoever is outside his obedience is in a state of damnation.

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#32. Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.

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#33. We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.

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#34. The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.

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#35. The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.

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#36. Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.

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#37. Love does not stay idle.

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#38. Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

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#39. The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.

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#40. The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.

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#41. 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

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#42. A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.

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#43. 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.

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#44. We trust and believe in what we love.

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#45. You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!

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#46. 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.

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#47. 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.

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#48. Love transforms one into what one loves.

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#49. There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.

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#50. It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.

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#51. Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God's sake.

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#52. O abyss! O eternal Godhead! O deep sea! What more could you have given me than the gift of your very self?

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#53. It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.

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#54. Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.

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#55. 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.

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#56. Obedient people never trust in themselves.

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#57. You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.

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#58. 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.

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#59. 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 ...

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#60. God is closer to us than water is to a fish.

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#61. 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.

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#62. A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.

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#63. One who knows more, loves more.

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#64. Obedience shows whether you are grateful.

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#65. 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.

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#66. Avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.

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#67. 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.

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#68. 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.

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#69. For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.

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#70. To the servant of God ... every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.

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#71. You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.

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#72. 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.

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#73. You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.

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#74. God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.

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#75. Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.

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#76. Make yourself a "capacity" and I will make myself a "torrent."

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#77. It's one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.

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#78. 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.

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#79. Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.

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#80. 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.

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#81. Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.

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#82. Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.

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#83. Out of darkness is born the light.

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#84. Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.

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#85. 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.

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