Top 90 Catherine of Siena Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.”

— Catherine of Siena

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2. “God is closer to us than water is to a fish.”

— Catherine of Siena

3. “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.”

— Catherine of Siena

4. “Out of darkness is born the light.”

— Catherine of Siena

5. “Love transforms one into what one loves.”

— Catherine of Siena

6. “Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.”

— Catherine of Siena

7. “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.”

— Catherine of Siena

8. “We’ve had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.”

— Catherine of Siena

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

— Catherine of Siena

10. “The human heart is always drawn by love.”

— Catherine of Siena

11. “Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.”

— Catherine of Siena

12. “Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!”

— Catherine of Siena

13. “You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.”

— Catherine of Siena

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

— Catherine of Siena

15. “The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.”

— Catherine of Siena

16. “Be who you were created to be, and you will set the world on fire.”

— Catherine of Siena

17. “Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.”

— Catherine of Siena

18. “One who knows more, loves more.”

— Catherine of Siena

19. “A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.”

— Catherine of Siena

20. “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.”

— Catherine of Siena

21. “Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.”

— Catherine of Siena

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

— Catherine of Siena

23. “Obedient people never trust in themselves.”

— Catherine of Siena

24. “Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.”

— Catherine of Siena

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

— Catherine of Siena

26. “There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.”

— Catherine of Siena

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

— Catherine of Siena

28. “Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.””

— Catherine of Siena

29. “Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.”

— Catherine of Siena

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

— Catherine of Siena

31. “You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.”

— Catherine of Siena

32. “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.”

— Catherine of Siena

33. “It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.”

— Catherine of Siena

34. “It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.”

— Catherine of Siena

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

— Catherine of Siena

36. “Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.”

— Catherine of Siena

37. “Heaven is along the way.”

— Catherine of Siena

38. “Obedience shows whether you are grateful.”

— Catherine of Siena

39. “God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.”

— Catherine of Siena

40. “Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.”

— Catherine of Siena

41. “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.”

— Catherine of Siena

42. “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.”

— Catherine of Siena

43. “For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.”

— Catherine of Siena

44. “Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.”

— Catherine of Siena

45. “Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.”

— Catherine of Siena

46. “What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!”

— Catherine of Siena

47. “The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.”

— Catherine of Siena

48. “Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.”

— Catherine of Siena

49. “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.”

— Catherine of Siena

50. “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.”

— Catherine of Siena