Quotes from St. Catherine of Siena

It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.

The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.

... people become like what they love.

Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

We trust and believe in what we love.

Obedient people never trust in themselves.

Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.

Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.

You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.

It's one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.

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.

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.

The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.

You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.

You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.

Christ Jesus left you this sweet key of obedience; for He left His Vicar, whom you are all obliged to obey until death. And whoever is outside his obedience is in a state of damnation.

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

Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.