Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), Page: Quotes, Prayer (problems), Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
And although many conflicts of diverse kinds should abound in prayer, and darkness of mind with much confusion, the devil making the soul feel that her prayer was not pleasing to God, nevertheless, she ought not to give up on account of those conflicts and shadows, but to abide firm in fortitude and long perseverance, considering that the devil so does to draw her away from prayer the mother, and God permits it to test the fortitude and constancy of that soul.
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
Abandonment (of self), Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
You know…that 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.
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), Page: Quotes, Quote Author
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.
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Struggle (with Sin)
[Sin is] loving what God hates, and hating what God loves.
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
Abandonment (of self), Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Lose yourself wholly;
and the more you lose,
the more you will find. –Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
You, O eternal Trinity, are a deep sea,
into which the more I enter the more I find,
and the more I find the more I seek.
The soul cannot be satiated in your abyss,
for she continually hungers after you, the eternal Trinity,
desiring to see you with the light of your light.
As the heart desires the springs of living water,
so my soul desires to leave the prison of this dark body
and see you in truth.
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
