St. Catherine of Siena
Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.Collection: Passion
Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.Collection: Light
You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.Collection: Love
He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.Collection: Letting Go
Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.Collection: Voice
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.Collection: Positive
It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.Collection: Light
A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.Collection: Love
To the servant of God... every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.Collection: Faith
Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.Collection: Success
God is closer to us than water is to a fish.Collection: Water
We are of such value to God that He came to live among us... and to guide us home. He will go to any length to seek us, even to being lifted high upon the cross to draw us back to Himself. We can only respond by loving God for His love.Collection: Home
We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.Collection: Silence
Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.Collection: Roots
Love transforms one into what one loves.Collection: One Love
Even if [the Pope an incarnate devil], we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to rest on his bosom... He who rebels against our Father is condemned to death, for that which we do to him we do to Christ: we honor Christ if we honor the Pope; we dishonor Christ if we dishonor the Pope.Collection: Father
The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Heart
Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!Collection: Want
You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.Collection: Believe
When it seems that God shows us the faults of others, keep on the safer side-it may be that your judgment is false. On your lips let silence abide. And any vice that you may ascribe to others, ascribe at once to them and yourself, in true humility. If that vice really exists in a person, he will correct himself better, seeing himself so gently understood, and will say of his own accord the thing that you would have said to him.Collection: Humility
And of what should we be afraid? Our captain on this battlefield is Christ Jesus. We have discovered what we have to do. Christ has bound our enemies for us and weakened them that they cannot overcome us unless we so choose to let them. So we must fight courageously and mark ourselves with the sign of the most Holy Cross.Collection: Jesus
Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.Collection: Love Is
Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.Collection: Wisdom
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.Collection: Would Be
How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge! They gnaw away at themselves constantly, and they have killed themselves even before they kill their enemies.Collection: Pain
Obedient people never trust in themselves.Collection: People
The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.Collection: Love Is
To join two things together there must be nothing between them or there cannot be a perfect fusion. Now realize that this is how God wants our soul to be, without any selfish love of ourselves or of others in between, just as God loves us without anything in between.Collection: Selfish
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?Collection: Charity
The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.Collection: Women
The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.Collection: Lying
Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.Collection: Love
He has never left you.It is justthat your soul is so vastthat just likethe earth in its innocence,it may think,"I do not feel my lover's warmthagainst my face rightnow."But look, dear,is not the sun reaching down its armsand always holding a continentin its light?God cannot leave us.It is just that our soul is so vast,we do not always feel His lipsupon theveil.Collection: Thinking
God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.Collection: Sin
Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire ever burning and never consumed, which itself consumes all the selfish love that fills my being.Collection: Faith
You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!Collection: Made
Out of darkness is born the light.Collection: Light
Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.Collection: Way
Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.Collection: House
The city is the image of the soul, the surrounding walls being the frontier between the outward and inward life. The gates are the faculties or senses connecting the life of the soul with the outward world. Living springs of water rise within it. And in the centre, where beats the heart, stands the holy sanctuary.Collection: Wall
Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God's sake.Collection: Sake
O fire of love! Was it not enough for You to have created us to Your image and likeness, and to have recreated us in grace through the Blood of Your Son, without giving Yourself wholly to us as our Food, O God, Divine Essence? What impelled You to do this? Your charity alone.Collection: Son
A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.Collection: Doe
You [God] are a fire that takes away the coldness, illuminates the mind with its light, and causes me to know your truth and I know that you are beauty and wisdom itself. The food of angels, you give yourself to man in this fire of your loveCollection: Angel
We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.Collection: Humble
For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.Collection: Humility
There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.Collection: Mean
We trust and believe in what we love.Collection: Believe
all the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.Collection: Pride