Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
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… — 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
