St. Catherine of Siena Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Roots, Vices, Facts

• Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Love, Christian, Light

  St. Catherine of Siena (2010). “The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena: A Conversation with God on Living Your Spiritual Life to the Fullest”, p.49, TAN Books

• Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Wisdom, Honesty, Integrity

• There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Mean, Perfect, Fruit

• No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying of the body than he who does less, inasmuch as neither virtue nor merit consists therein; for otherwise he would be an evil case, who for some legitimate reason was unable to do actual penance. Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Light, Evil, Giving

• all the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Pride, Vices, Charity

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