Quotes from Catherine of Siena

Build a cell inside your mind, from which you can never flee.

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, remaining in the cell of self-knowledge, in order to know better the goodness of God towards her.

There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.

Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!

Love does not stay idle.

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

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

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

Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.

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

Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.

There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.