Catherine of Siena Quotes

"All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, "I am the way.

Take my heart and squeeze it out over the face of Your Bride, the Church.

that the endurance of suffering alone, without desire, was not sufficient to punish a fault.

Remain with Him in thy chamber, for thou shalt not elsewhere find so great peace.

If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire!

If you are what you ought to be, you will set fire to all Italy, and not only yonder. (Letter 368 to Stefano Maconi)

Oh, Most Holy Father, this is the sword which I beg you to take into your hand. Now is the time to draw it from its sheath, and to hate vice in yourself, in your children, and in the Holy Church. I say 'yourself', because in this life none dare say that he is free from sin, and love should begin with oneself.

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

Infinite grief I wish from My creature in two ways: in one way, through her sorrow for her own sins, which she has committed against Me her Creator; in the other way, through her sorrow for the sins which she sees her neighbors commit against Me.

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

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

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.

Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.

Then the soul will inflame herself in this knowledge of Me with an ineffable love, through which love she continues in constant pain; not, however, a pain which afflicts or dries up the soul, but one which rather fattens her; for since she has known My truth, and her own faults, and the ingratitude of men, she endures intolerable suffering, grieving because she loves Me; for, if she did not love Me, she would not be obliged to do so; whence it follows immediately, that it is right for you, and My other servants who have learned My truth in this way, to sustain, even unto death, many tribulations and injuries and insults in word and deed, for the glory and praise of My Name; thus will you endure and suffer pains.

Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.