Saint Catherine Of Siena Quotes

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

Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire. ~ Catherine Of Siena

It seems to her [Saint Catherine of Siena] that the devil has this world in his power, not by his own will, for he is powerless, but through our help because we obey him. The evil aroma rising from the ... wars which are waged by Christians against Christians, are the same as war against God ... Peace, peace, for the sake of the love of the crucified Christ, and not war; that is the only solution. ~ Sigrid Undset

Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself. ~ St. Catherine Of Siena

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

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

It's one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love. ~ St. Catherine Of Siena

Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves. ~ St. Catherine Of Siena

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue. ~ St. Catherine Of Siena

The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God. ~ St. Catherine Of Siena

You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great! ~ St. Catherine Of Siena

If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire! ~ Catherine Of Siena

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both. ~ St. Catherine Of Siena

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

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. ~ St. Catherine Of Siena

Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you. ~ St. Catherine Of Siena

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

Love transforms one into what one loves. ~ St. Catherine Of Siena

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

Love follows knowledge. ~ Catherine Of Siena

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. ~ St. Catherine Of Siena

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

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

Penance to be sure must be used as a tool, in due times and places, as need may be. If the flesh, being too strong, kicks against the spirit, penance takes the rod of discipline, and fast, and the cilice of many buds, and mighty vigils; and places burdens enough on the flesh, that it may be more subdued. But if the body is weak, fallen into illness, the rule of discretion does not approve of such a method. ~ St. Catherine Of Siena

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

Wherefore, as I have said to you, I, God, have become man, and man has become God by the union of My Divine Nature with your human nature. This greatness is given in general to all rational creatures, but, among these I have especially chosen My ministers for the sake of your salvation, so that, through them, the Blood of the humble and immaculate Lamb, My only-begotten Son, may be administered to you. ~ St. Catherine Of Siena

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

Every step of the way to heaven is heaven. ~ Catherine Of Siena

O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself? ~ St. Catherine Of Siena

There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor. ~ St. Catherine Of Siena

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

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

the soul always fears until she arrives at true love. ~ Catherine Of Siena

Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear. ~ Catherine Of Siena

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

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

We almost began a perfect conversation, F. said as he turned on the six o'clock news. He turned the radio
very loud and began to shout wildly against the voice of the commentator, who was reciting a list of disasters.
Sail on, sail on, O Ship of State, auto accidents, births, Berlin, cures for cancer! Listen, my friend, listen to the
present, the right now, it's all around us, painted like a target, red, white, and blue. Sail into the target like a
dart, a fluke bull's eye in a dirty pub. Empty your memory and listen to the fire around you. Don't forget your
memory, let it exist somewhere precious in all the colors that it needs but somewhere else, hoist your memory
on the Ship of State like a pirate's sail, and aim yourself at the tinkly present. Do you know how to do this?
Do you know how to see the akropolis like the Indians did who never even had one? Fuck a saint, that's how,
find a little saint and fuck her over and over in some pleasant part of heaven, get right into her plastic altar,
dwell in her silver medal, fuck her until she tinkles like a souvenir music box, until the memorial lights go on
for free, find a little saintly faker like Teresa or Catherine Tekakwitha or Lesbia, whom prick never knew but
who lay around all day in a chocolate poem, find one of these quaint impossible cunts and fuck her for your
life, coming all over the sky, fuck her on the moon with a steel hourglass up your hole, get tangled ~ Leonard Cohen

Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches. ~ St. Catherine Of Siena

No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying of the body than he who does less, inasmuch as neither virtue nor merit consists therein; for otherwise he would be an evil case, who for some legitimate reason was unable to do actual penance. Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing. ~ St. Catherine Of Siena

People become like what they love. ~ St. Catherine Of Siena

Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things! ~ St. Catherine Of Siena