Saint Catherine of Siena (March 25, 1347 – April 29, 1380) was a Dominican Tertiary (lay affiliate) of the Dominican Order.
Quotes
- The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
- Attributed by Dorothy Day in On Pilgrimage (1948) p. 161
- Variants:
- All the way to Heaven is Heaven, because Christ is the Way.
- As attributed in The Last Things : Death, Judgment, Hell, Heaven (1998) by Regis Martin, p. 39
- All the way to heaven is heaven, for Jesus said, I am the way.
- As attributed in The Fear of Beggars : Stewardship and Poverty in Christian Ethics (2007) by Kelly S. Johnson, p. 209
- If you are what you ought to be, you will set fire to all Italy, and not only yonder. (Letter 368 to Stefano Maconi)
- Original Italian: Se sarete quello che dovete essere, metterete fuoco in tutta Italia, non tanto costì.
- Variant versions:
- If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world on fire!
- If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze! As quoted by Pope John Paul II in | an address to the Regnum Christi Movement and the Legionaries of Christ (4 January 2001)
- Also as quoted by Pope John Paul II in | The Closing Homily at World Youth Day, Tor Vergata, (Sunday 20 August 2000)
- Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
- As quoted by Bishop Richard Chartres in his sermon to the Royal Wedding congregation at Westminster Abbey (29 April 2011)[specific citation needed]
- Variant versions:
- Original Italian: Se sarete quello che dovete essere, metterete fuoco in tutta Italia, non tanto costì.
External links
- Works by Catherine of Siena at Project Gutenberg
- "St. Catherine of Siena" by Edmund G. Gardner in The Catholic Encyclopedia (1908)
- Saint Catherine of Siena, Virgin at EWTN
- Letters of Catherine from Gutenberg
- Saint Catherine of Siena: text with concordances and frequency list
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