Catherine of Siena

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

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.
  • As quoted in On Pilgrimage (1948) by Dorothy Day, p, 161
  • Variants:
  • All the way to Heaven is Heaven, because Christ is the Way.
    • As quoted 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 quoted in The Fear of Beggars : Stewardship and Poverty in Christian Ethics (2007) by Kelly S. Johnson, p. 209

• 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)

External links

• Works by Catherine of Siena at Project Gutenberg
• "St. Catherine of Siena" by Edmund G. Gardner in The Catholic Encyclopedia (1908)
• Saint Catherine of Siena, Virgin at EWTN
• Letters of Catherine from Gutenberg
• Saint Catherine of Siena: text with concordances and frequency list