Caterina da Siena frasi celebri
“L'umile spegne la superbia, però […] 'l superbo non può far danno a l'umile.”
Libro della divina dottrina volgarmente detto Dialogo della divina provvidenza
“E diceva parole tanto dolci, che è da scoppiare, della bontà di Dio.”
dalla lettera A Frate Raimondo da Capua dell'Ordine de' Predicatori, nelle Lettere
“Orsù figliuoli dolcissimi, correte questo palio; e fate che solo sia uno quello che l'abbia.”
dalla lettera A Sano di Maco, e agli altri figliuoli, nelle Lettere
Libro della divina dottrina volgarmente detto Dialogo della divina provvidenza
Caterina da Siena Frasi e Citazioni
Libro della divina dottrina volgarmente detto Dialogo della divina provvidenza
“Nella amaritudine gusterai la dolcezza, e nella guerra la pace.”
dalla lettera A Stefano di Corrado Maconi, nelle Lettere
“[Le ultime parole] Sangue, sangue, sangue.”
citata in Lodovico Ferretti, Vita di S. Caterina da Siena, Ferrari
Libro della divina dottrina volgarmente detto Dialogo della divina provvidenza
Caterina da Siena: Frasi in inglese
“Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.”
quoted in [LifeSite, The heart of the Catholic Church's current crisis is the abandonment of law and doctrine - LifeSite, 2022-06-07, 2022-05-05, https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/the-heart-of-the-catholic-churchs-current-crisis-is-the-abandonment-of-law-and-doctrine/]
Variant versions:
I see the world is rotten because of silence … speak the truth in a million voices. It is silence that kills. (quoted at 0:23 of [Randall Terry, The Silence That Kills, 2022-06-07, 2020-10-19, 23:29, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql2ncPIgui0])
Original Italian: Oimé, non più tacere! Gridate con centomiglia di lingue. Veggo che, per lo tacere, el mondo è guasto, la Sposa di Cristo è impalidita ( Lettera 16, "A uno grande prelato" http://www.clerus.org/bibliaclerusonline/it/eki.htm#q)
lit.: "O alas, be silent no more! Shout with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that, through silence, the world is broken, the Bride of Christ is impaled"
“If you are what you ought to be, you will set fire to all Italy, and not only yonder.”
Letter 368 to Stefano Maconi
https://books.google.com/books?id=LWNjf0Z4lyQC&pg=PA305&lpg=PA305&dq=%22If+you+are+what+you+ought+to+be,+you+will+set+fire+to+all+Italy,+and+not+only+yonder%22&source=bl&ots=6tw9wgS_zN&sig=5LhhXLw-1e1UzxXkUVoRnmMncdM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjjxcDfzuPJAhVPw2MKHcPYCiwQ6AEIKTAC#v=onepage&q=%22If%20you%20are%20what%20you%20ought%20to%20be%2C%20you%20will%20set%20fire%20to%20all%20Italy%2C%20and%20not%20only%20yonder%22&f=false
Original Italian: Se sarete quello che dovete essere, metterete fuoco in tutta Italia, non tanto costì. https://books.google.com/books?id=KX8Nu_SRy7wC&pg=PA461&dq=Se+sarete+quello+che+dovete+essere,+metterete+fuoco+in+tutta+Italia,+non+tanto+costi.&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi55pmdzuPJAhUU3GMKHY8OBCUQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22Se%20sarete%20quello%20che%20dovete%20essere%2C%20metterete%20fuoco%20in%20tutta%20Italia%2C%20non%20tanto%20costi.%22&f=false
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) http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/speeches/2001/january/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_20010104_legionari-cristo.html
Also as quoted by Pope John Paul II in | The Closing Homily at World Youth Day, Tor Vergata, (Sunday 20 August 2000) http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/homilies/2000/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_20000820_gmg.html
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)
“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
