Catherine of Siena Quotes

The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness.

There is nothing we've done that can't be wiped clean by Christ.

It seems to me scarcely possible that one who has so long lived in sin, who has resisted so much light and has so often grieved away the Holy Spirit, as I have, should again be visited with its heavenly influences. But I hope it is so.

The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God's loving-kindness.

If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.

Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.

Only the love that flows from the heart of Christ can heal. Only He in whom that love flows, even as the sap in the tree or the blood in the body, can restore the wounded soul.

Christ receives people; because of that mercy, conversion happens.

We all sin. We all can change. We all can be reborn in Christ.

We all need grace. We all need Christ.

Too many times we think we've fallen too far from God or we're not worthy.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

Jesus never called a human being a sinner.

Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.

There are no unforgivable sins.

It is not repentance per se that saves man. It is the blood of Jesus Christ that saves us.

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

I was, by divine grace, enabled to bring all my sins and all my sorrows and lay them at the feet of Jesus, and to receive the blessed assurance that He had accepted me, all sinful and polluted as I was.

The blood of Christ covers all of our sins, but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience his forgiveness.

The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.

I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.

The eternal God - the infinite Jehovah - has done all he could do - even to the sacrificing his own Son - to provide a way for man's happiness, and yet they reject him, hate him, and laugh him to scorn!

Catholics should be proselytizing about a God who is love, who represents a hereafter where there's no hell, who wants you to lead a life where you can confess your sins and feel much better afterwards. Those are lovely concepts of God.