St Catherine of Siena Quotes
No more silence! Shout out with a hundred thousand tongues! I am seeing the world going to ruin because people are not speaking out. Letter to a Prelate
One who knows more, loves more.
And let the Truth be your delight … Proclaim it!
We trust and believe in what we love.
Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.
Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
May God give me the grace to be always a proclaimer of the truth.” Letter 277 to Allesa dei Saracini
“The human heart is always drawn by love.” Dialogue 26
We are called to be persons who are in love with truth and enlightened by it. Letter 284 to Cardinal Pedro de Luna
“Our heart becomes so large that we have room for the whole world.” Catherine’s Letter No 263 to Monna Montagne
“If you are what you should be, you will set all the world ablaze!” Letter T368
I am the Fire and you are the sparks. Letter T170
You have given humankind a share in this nature for by the fire of love You created us.” Prayer 12
Out of darkness is born the light. Letter T211
You are a fire lifting all chill and giving light. Dialogue 167
It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light. Prayer 24
You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
On two feet you must walk my way. Raymond of Capua, Life of Catherine of Siena, 121
The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish. Dialogue 2
Every place is our place; every time is our time. Letter 349 to several public figures of Rome
Grant us a holy discontent. Challenge us to Your justice.
Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
God speaking to Catherine, adapted by S Flynn:
- I gave you eyes to look at the sky and everything else and the beauty and wonder of creation through Me.
- I gave you ears to listen to my Word and to pay attention to the needs of all the human family, and especially to your neighbours.
- I gave you your tongue to proclaim my Word, to speak truth, to be the voice of the silenced, to turn away from self-absorption for the salvation of others and their dignity.
- I gave you your hands to serve our human family so whenever you see them downtrodden and sick, you will reach out to them in their need.
- I gave you your feel to carry you to places that are holy and useful to your neighbours for the glory and praise of my name.
We who taste in prayer and study the fire of God’s truth and love for us are inescapably called to rise up impassioned for the world’s healing. Catherine of Siena
She was a voice, a warning, a torch when truth was dimmed and life was deceptive and days were dark. Joan Chittester
