Every step of the way to heaven is heaven. St. Catherine of Siena More Quotes by St. Catherine of Siena More Quotes From St. Catherine of Siena Don't make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth. St. Catherine of Siena speaking-up earth complaining The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors. St. Catherine of Siena reach-out neighbor soul all the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity. St. Catherine of Siena charity vices pride O abyss! O eternal Godhead! O deep sea! What more could you have given me than the gift of your very self? St. Catherine of Siena given self sea No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying of the body than he who does less, inasmuch as neither virtue nor merit consists therein; for otherwise he would be an evil case, who for some legitimate reason was unable to do actual penance. Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing. St. Catherine of Siena light evil giving We were enclosed, O eternal Father, within the garden of your breast. You drew us out of your holy mind like a flower petaled with our soul's three powers and into each power you put the whole plant, so that they might bear fruit in your garden, might come back to you with the fruit you gave them. And you would come back to the soul, to fill her with your blessedness. There the soul dwells like the fish in the sea and the sea in the fish. St. Catherine of Siena garden flower father ... people become like what they love. St. Catherine of Siena people It's one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love. St. Catherine of Siena property what-is-love persons In your nature, eternal Godhead, I shall come to know my nature. And what is my nature? It is fire, because you are nothing but a fire of love. And you have given humankind a share in this nature, for by the fire of love you created us. St. Catherine of Siena fire share love-you Make yourself a "capacity" and I will make myself a "torrent." St. Catherine of Siena christian-inspirational inspiration faith O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself? St. Catherine of Siena deities ocean giving Love does not stay idle. St. Catherine of Siena idle doe 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. St. Catherine of Siena office giving men What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave! St. Catherine of Siena sake father son avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good. St. Catherine of Siena worms envy greed Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love. St. Catherine of Siena love-is people Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself. St. Catherine of Siena world God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil. St. Catherine of Siena lips veils soul too great pity is the greatest cruelty. St. Catherine of Siena cruelty pity You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary. St. Catherine of Siena know-me knows
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