Any time spent before the Eucharistic presence, be it long or short, is the best-spent time of our lives. — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
Oh, what peril attaches to sin willfully committed! For it is so difficult for man to bring himself to penance, and without penitence guilt remains and will ever remain, so long as man retains unchanged the will to sin, or… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
This I say, because God showed me somewhat of his truth, in order that I might know what man is without him; that is,… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
Now although man is created for the possession of happiness, yet, having deviated from his true end, his nature has become deformed and is entirely repugnant to true beatitude. And on this account we are forced to submit to God this depraved nature of ours which fills our understanding with so many occupations, and causes us to deviate from the… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share
Know for a certainty that if men understood how terrible is even one solitary sin, they would rather be cast into a heated furnace,… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness. — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
“Since I am determined to join myself to God, I find that I am also bound to be the enemy of his enemies. And… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
And when I hear it said that God is good and He will pardon us, and then see that men cease not from evil-doing,… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
Any time spent before the Eucharistic presence, be it long or short, is the best-spent time of our lives. — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
My "me" is God nor do I recognize any other "me" except my God himself. — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
The one sole thing in myself in which I glory is that I see in myself nothing in which I can glory. — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
Oh, what peril attaches to sin willfully committed! For it is so difficult for man to bring himself to penance, and without penitence guilt… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
