1. “Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.” – Catherine of Siena
2. “the soul always fears until she arrives at true love.” – Catherine of Siena
3. “For ye are all trees of love, and without love ye cannot live, for ye have been made by Me for love.” – Catherine of Siena
4. “Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.” – Catherine of Siena
5. “Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.” – Catherine of Siena
6. “Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.” – Catherine of Siena
7. “The human heart is always drawn by love.” – Catherine of Siena
8. “Our Lord hates above all things three abominable sins: covetousness, unchastity and pride.” – Catherine of Siena
9. “Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.” – Catherine of Siena
10. “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.” – Catherine of Siena
11. “Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.” – Catherine of Siena
12. “Penance should be but the means to increase virtue according to the needs of the individual, and according to what the soul sees she can do in the measure of her own possibility.” – Catherine of Siena
13. “There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.” – Catherine of Siena
14. “It is surely justice to share our natural gifts with those who share our nature.” – Catherine of Siena
15. “Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.” – Catherine of Siena
16. “A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.” – Catherine of Siena
17. “Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.” – Catherine of Siena
18. “You are the Fire that takes away the cold, illuminates the mind with its light, and causes me to know the truth.” – Catherine of Siena
19. “Be strong and kill yourself with the sword of hate and love, then you will not hear the insults and abuse which the enemies of the Church throw at you. Your eyes will not see anything which seems impossible, or the sufferings which may follow, but only the light of faith, and in that light everything is possible; and remember God never lays greater burdens on us than we can bear.” – Catherine of Siena
20. “God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.” – Catherine of Siena
21. “To show the love we have to Him, we ought to serve and love every rational creature.” – Catherine of Siena
22. “The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.” – Catherine of Siena
23. “Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!” – Catherine of Siena
24. “Love transforms you into what you love.” – Catherine of Siena
25. “You know that every evil is founded in self-love, and that self-love is a cloud that takes away the light of reason, which reason holds in itself the light of faith, and one is not lost without the other.” – Catherine of Siena
26. “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.” – Catherine of Siena
27. “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.” – Catherine of Siena
28. “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.” – Catherine of Siena
29. “We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.” – Catherine of Siena
30. “From self-knowledge flows the stream of humility, which never seizes on mere report, nor takes offense at anything, but bears every insult, every loss of consolation, and every sorry, from whatever direction they may come, patiently, with joy.” – Catherine of Siena
31. “that the endurance of suffering alone, without desire, was not sufficient to punish a fault.” – Catherine of Siena
32. “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.” – Catherine of Siena
33. “Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist” – Catherine of Siena
34. “Remain with Him in thy chamber, for thou shalt not elsewhere find so great peace.” – Catherine of Siena
35. “Suffering and sorrow increase in proportion to love: When love grows, so does sorrow.” – Catherine of Siena
36. “Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.” – Catherine of Siena
37. “There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.” – Catherine of Siena
38. “Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.” – Catherine of Siena
39. “Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.” – Catherine of Siena
40. “It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.” – Catherine of Siena
41. “Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.” – Catherine of Siena
42. “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.” – Catherine of Siena
43. “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.” – Catherine of Siena
44. “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.” – Catherine of Siena
45. “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.” – Catherine of Siena
46. “Take my heart and squeeze it out over the face of Your Bride, the Church.” – Catherine of Siena
47. “There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.” – Catherine of Siena
48. “The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.” – Catherine of Siena
49. “Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.” – Catherine of Siena
50. “You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.” – Catherine of Siena
51. “Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.” – Catherine of Siena
52. “You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!” – Catherine of Siena
53. “It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.” – Catherine of Siena
54. “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.” – Catherine of Siena
55. “All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, “I am the way.” – Catherine of Siena
56. “We’ve had enough exhortations to be silent. Cry out with a thousand tongues – I see the world is rotten because of silence.” – Catherine of Siena
57. “Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.” – Catherine of Siena
58. “To the servant of God… every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.” – Catherine of Siena
59. “What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!” – Catherine of Siena
60. “Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.” – Catherine of Siena
61. “Love follows knowledge.” – Catherine of Siena
62. “I had not been able to show, by finite things, because My love was infinite, how much more love I had, I wished you to see the secret of the Heart,” – Catherine of Siena
63. “Speak the truth in a million voices. It is silence that kills.” – Catherine of Siena
64. “Obedience shows whether you are grateful.” – Catherine of Siena
65. “Love does not stay idle.” – Catherine of Siena
66. “Otherwise you fall into contempt of your neighbor, if you judge his evil will towards you, instead of My will acting in him.” – Catherine of Siena
67. “If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire.” – Catherine of Siena
68. “Heaven is along the way.” – Catherine of Siena
69. “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…” – Catherine of Siena
70. “God said: I have placed you in the midst of your fellows so that you may do to them what you cannot do to Me – that is, so that you may love your neighbor freely without expecting any return from him. And what you do to him I count as done to Me.” – Catherine of Siena
71. “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?” – Catherine of Siena
72. “You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.” – Catherine of Siena
73. “It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors. These are the two feet of affection on which you must follow the commandments and counsels given you by Christ crucified.” – Catherine of Siena
74. “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.” – Catherine of Siena
75. “Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.” – Catherine of Siena
76. “I also wish you to look at the Bridge of My only-begotten Son, and see the greatness thereof, for it reaches from Heaven to earth, that is, that the earth of your humanity is joined to the greatness of the Deity thereby.” – Catherine of Siena
77. “O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself?” – Catherine of Siena
78. “It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.” – Catherine of Siena
79. “Out of darkness is born the light.” – Catherine of Siena
80. “Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.” – Catherine of Siena
81. “For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.” – Catherine of Siena
82. “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.” – Catherine of Siena
83. “God is closer to us than water is to a fish.” – Catherine of Siena
84. “Turn over the rudder in God’s name, and sail with the wind heaven sends us.” – Catherine of Siena
85. “It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.” – Catherine of Siena