Top 90 Catherine of Siena Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge! They gnaw away at themselves constantly, and they have killed themselves even before they kill their enemies...”

— Catherine of Siena

52. “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

53. “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.”

— Catherine of Siena

54. “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.”

— Catherine of Siena

55. “Of course you are unworthy. But when do you hope to be worthy? You will be no more worthy at the end than at the beginning. God alone is worthy of Himself, He alone can make us worthy of Him.”

— Catherine of Siena

56. “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.”

— Catherine of Siena

57. “Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.”

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58. “Love does not stay idle.”

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59. “Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.”

— Catherine of Siena

60. “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.”

— Catherine of Siena

61. “Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.”

— Catherine of Siena

62. “You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!”

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63. “A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.”

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64. “O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself?”

— Catherine of Siena

65. “We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.”

— Catherine of Siena

66. “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.”

— Catherine of Siena

67. “It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.”

— Catherine of Siena

68. “Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.”

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69. “Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.”

— Catherine of Siena

70. “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.”

— Catherine of Siena

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

— Catherine of Siena

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

— Catherine of Siena

73. “All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.”

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74. “God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.”

— Catherine of Siena

75. “The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.”

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76. “There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.”

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77. “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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78. “You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.”

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79. “The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.”

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80. “Be strong and kill yourself with the sword of hate and love, then you will not hear the insults and abuse which the enemies of the Church throw at you. Your eyes will not see anything which seems impossible, or the sufferings which may follow, but only the light of faith, and in that light everything is possible; and remember God never lays greater burdens on us than we can bear.”

— Catherine of Siena

81. “These tiny ants have proceeded from His thought just as much as I, it caused Him just as much trouble to create the angels as these animals and the flowers on the trees.”

— Catherine of Siena

82. “You know that every evil is founded in self-love, and that self-love is a cloud that takes away the light of reason, which reason holds in itself the light of faith, and one is not lost without the other.”

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83. “Turn over the rudder in God’s name, and sail with the wind heaven sends us.”

— Catherine of Siena

84. “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.”

— Catherine of Siena

85. “St. Catherine of Genoa’s life combined the noblest forms of Christian service with the highest levels of contemplative prayer. May her life and her doctrine help us, too, to live out our Christian discipleship, inspired by the love of God she taught and exemplified.”

— Catherine of Siena

86. “See then how He returns, not in actual flesh and blood, but, as I have said, building the road of His doctrine, with His power, which road cannot be destroyed or taken away from him who wishes to follow it, because it is firm and stable, and proceeds from Me, who am immovable.”

— Catherine of Siena

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

— Catherine of Siena

88. “The sign that you have this virtue is patience, and impatience the sign that you have it not, and you will find that this is indeed so, when I speak to you further concerning this virtue.”

— Catherine of Siena

89. “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.”

— Catherine of Siena

90. “Penance should be but the means to increase virtue according to the needs of the individual, and according to what the soul sees she can do in the measure of her own possibility.”

— Catherine of Siena

91. “Otherwise you fall into contempt of your neighbor, if you judge his evil will towards you, instead of My will acting in him.”

— Catherine of Siena

92. “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

93. “It is surely justice to share our natural gifts with those who share our nature.”

— Catherine of Siena

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

— Catherine of Siena