Catherine of Siena Quotes

Italian Dominican saint (1347-1380)

Saint Catherine of Siena (March 25, 1347 – April 29, 1380) was a Dominican Tertiary (lay affiliate) of the Dominican Order.

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Alternative Names: Catherine de Sienne • Caterina van Siena • Santa Caterina di Siena • Saint Catherine of Siena • Chaterina da Siena • Caterina da Siena • Catharina Senensis • Katharina von Siena • Chatarina da Siena • Caterina Benincasa • Catalina de Siena • Catherine of Sienna • Catharine of Sienna

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Suffering and sorrow increase in proportion to love: When love grows, so does sorrow.

the soul always fears until she arrives at true love.

Turn over the rudder in God's name, and sail with the wind heaven sends us.

knoweth things as they are and not as they are said or seem to be, he truly is wise, and is taught of God more than of men. He who knoweth

believe no happiness can be found worthy to be compared with that of a soul in Purgatory except that of the saints in Paradise. And day by day this happiness grows as God flows into these souls, more and more as the hindrance to His entrance is consumed. Sin's rust is the hindrance, and the fire burns the rust away so that more and more the soul opens itself up to the divine inflowing.

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,

Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.