Quotes by 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.”

“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...”

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

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

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

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

“She [Catherine of Siena] found a place of refuge in a lonely wood, where some hermits lived. It is generally thought that this brotherhood was the community of hermits in Vallombrosa, founded by St...”

“Wherefore they understood the Holy Scripture rather literally than with understanding, and taste only the letter of it, still desiring many other books; and they get not to the marrow of it, becaus...”

“Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.”

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

“The soul, who is lifted by a very great and yearning desire for the honor of God and the salvation of souls, begins by exercising herself, for a certain space of time, in the ordinary virtues, rema...”

“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 i...”

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

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

“It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me God eternal apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.”

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

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

“It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me God eternal apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.”

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

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