Penance to be sure must be used as a tool, in due times and places, as need may be. If the flesh, being too strong, kicks against the spirit, penance takes the rod of discipline, and fast, and the cilice… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Consider God's charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
