Quotes from Catherine of Siena
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
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
Lose yourself wholly and the more you lose the more you will find.
- Catherine of Siena
God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
- Catherine of Siena
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
God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
- Catherine of Siena
Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
- Catherine of Siena
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
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
You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
- Catherine of Siena
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
The poison of selfishness destroys the world.
- Catherine of Siena