Famous quotes, aphorisms and phrases of Saint Catherine of Siena, prayer from the correspondence, thoughts and reflections on life, exhortations to abandon oneself to the Holy Spirit.
Quotes of Saint Catherine of Siena
- So from pride self-love is born, and pride from love; because immediately that man loves with such love, he presumes himself, and his fruits all generate death, taking away the life of Grace in the soul that possesses them.
- Charity is that sweet and holy bond that binds the soul with its creator: she binds God in man, and man in God.
- Self-love is miserable, and I started from justice, and commits injustices, and has a servile fear, which does not allow him to do rightly what he owed, either for flattery or for fear of not losing his state.
- God is the supreme doctor, and he does and can and wants to give us our needs, and the medicine that hisogna us to our infirmity.
- Therefore, be content at all times, in all places; because all are granted to you by eternal Love.
- How long is our time? it is as much as a bit of a needle. Therefore it is well true that she is small; because the fadiga that has passed, I don't have it, because time has passed; what is to happen, I don't have it either, because I'm not sure I have the time, that's what I have to die for, and I don't know when. So only this point of the present is there, and no longer.
- Do not resist the Holy Spirit who calls you anymore, and do not despise the love that Mary has for you, nor the tears and prayers that are made for you; because too much would be great judgment.
- Therefore whoever is not in the love of God is not in that of his neighbor; not being there, it is like the member who is cut from the body, who immediately loses his life and becomes annoyed; because it is cut from its principle.
- Every great weight becomes light under this most holy yoke of the sweet will of God, without which you would not be able to please God, indeed you would taste the ark of hell.
- In bitterness you will taste sweetness, and in war peace.
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Aphorisms of Saint Catherine of Siena
- Set yourself as an object Christ crucified, hide in the wounds of Christ crucified, drown yourselves in the blood of Christ crucified. And do not delay, nor wait for time, because time does not wait for you.
- Come on, sweetest children, run this prize; and let only one be the one who has it.
- Since the garden is so well stocked, I want you to place the conscience dog on guard; and be tied to the door, so that if the enemies came, and the eye of the intellect slept the dog barks. Because, by barking the conscience's stimulus, the eye wakes up, and I met enemies with hatred and displeasure; and immediately repair and arm yourself with the weapon of love.
- Often continents and pure them taste incontinence for their garbage.
- Then, then, that it is up to us to elect either life or death, for the free will that God has given to us.
- We are Your image, and You our image for the union you have established between You and man, veiling eternal divinity with the poor cloud of Adam's corrupt humanity.
- Where you will strip yourself of the love that makes you impatient in the time of insults, or other pains; and you will dress yourself in a divine love that will make you patient; and glorieraiti in the cross of Christ crucified? prayer.
- All are sleep vices seasoned by pride, just like sleep virtues seasoned and receive life from charity.
- Where will you feel pain of conscience? prayer.
- In other things, it is not our pain, except in wanting what we cannot have.
Phrases of Saint Catherine of Siena
Sin does not proceed from anything other than loving what God hates, and hating what God loves.
- The prayer, exercising it in the decto way, unites the soul in God, following the vestiges of Christ crucified.
- Therefore, if you want to rest, let us rest our heart and soul, by faith and love, in Christ crucified: then we will find our soul full of joy. Oh sweetest Love, Jesus!
- You will be much more glorified by forgiving and giving the light of the intellect to many, than by not receiving the homage from a single miserable creature, which I am.
- If you stay in this holy faith, there will never be sadness in your heart. Because the sadness does not proceed from anything else but from the faith we place in creatures.
- The humble person turns off pride, but 'the proud cannot harm the humble person.
- Therefore it is better for us to tolerate that thing that takes away the light from us, that is, our own love, which is a cloud that does not let us know or see the truth of what we must love.
- The strongest and purest love is not what comes from the impression, but what comes from admiration.
- Stay in the holy and sweet love of God. Flee the death of lie and false judgment, you and the others.
