Humble and obedient…
We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
Be not satisfied…
Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things.
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
Light does not diminish….
If you have a light, and the whole world should come to you in order to take light from it—the light itself does not diminish—and yet each person has it all. It is true that everyone participates more or less in this light, according to the substance into which each one receives the fire…. Each one carries his own candle, that is the holy desire, with which he receives this Sacrament.
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380
Humility, simplicity, and goodness…
But unless humility, simplicity and goodness adorn our lives, and are associated with prayer, the mere formality of prayer will avail us nothing. And this I say, not of prayer only, but of every other outward exercise or labour undertaken with a notion of virtue.
— Abba Macarius (c. 300-391)
Totally ablaze with…
I long to see you so totally ablaze with loving fire that you become one with gentle First truth. Truly the soul’s being united with and transformed into him is like fire consuming the dampness in logs. Once the logs are heated through and through, the fire burns and changes them into itself, giving them its own color and warmth and power.
— Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
Seek Jesus…
It is only necessary to seek one thing: to be with Jesus. The man who remains with Jesus is rich, even if he is poor with regard to material things. Who ever desires the earthly more than the heavenly loses both the earthly and the heavenly. But whoever seeks the heavenly is Lord of the whole world.
–Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov (1807-1867)
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