Catherine of Siena

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. (Lettera 368 a Stefano Maconi)
 * 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)


 * Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world. (quoted in )
 * 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 )
 * 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")
 * 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"