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Catherine of Siena Quotes on God

Catherine of Siena was an Italian Dominican tertiary, mystic, and political activist whose influence on the fourteenth-century Church was extraordinary for a woman of her time. This page collects quotes attributed to Catherine of Siena on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Catherine of Siena:

    “Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.”

  • “All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, I am the way.”

    The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
  • Attributed to Catherine of Siena:

    “The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.”

  • “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
  • “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”

    The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.