Catherine Of Siena Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Catherine Of Siena
It is surely justice to share our natural gifts with those who share our nature. — 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
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
Also in America, the Redemptorist priest and founder of the Paulist order, Fr. Isaac Hecker, was a great admirer of St. Catherine, seeing in her the perfect foil to those who claimed that Catholicism promotes a mechanical piety or fosters a sanctity unconcerned with the real needs of suffering humanity in society. To the latter charge he replied forcefully:
"Read the life of St. Catherine, and in imagination fancy her in the city hospital of Genoa, charged not only with the supervision and responsibility of its finances, but also overseeing the care of its sick inmates, taking an active, personal part in its duties as one of its nurses, and conducting the whole establishment with strict economy, perfect order, and the tenderest care and love! — 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
Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love. — Catherine Of Siena
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
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
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
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
All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, I am the way. — Catherine Of Siena
Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear. — Catherine Of Siena
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. — Catherine Of Siena
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
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, — Catherine Of Siena
If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire! — Catherine Of Siena
Speak the truth in a million voices. It is silence that kills. — Catherine Of Siena
Every step of the way to heaven is heaven. — Catherine Of Siena
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. — Catherine Of Siena