102 Quotes by Catherine of Siena

Heaven is along the way.

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.

What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!

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.

Obedience shows whether you are grateful.

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

Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.

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.

For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.