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.
  • 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 should be, you will set the whole world on fire!
  • As quoted by Pope John Paul II in an address to the Regnum Christi Movement and the Legionaries of Christ (4 January 2001), as translated by Matthew Williams in "If You Are What You Should Be, You Will Set the World On Fire!" in the National Catholic Register (21 January 2001)
  • Variant translations:
  • 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)^{[specific citation needed]}

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