Quotes from St. 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.

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.

God is closer to us than water is to a fish.

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

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.

God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.

Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.

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.

God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.

You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!

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.

Make yourself a "capacity" and I will make myself a "torrent."

Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.

Consider God's charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?

Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home . . . and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.

To the servant of God... every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.

A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.

The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.

Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God's sake.

Love transforms one into what one loves.

Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.

Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist

The human heart is always drawn by love.

The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.