The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
St. Catherine of SienaYou are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
St. Catherine of SienaHe will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.
St. Catherine of SienaWe've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
St. Catherine of SienaWe were enclosed, O eternal Father, within the garden of your breast. You drew us out of your holy mind like a flower petaled with our soul's three powers and into each power you put the whole plant, so that they might bear fruit in your garden, might come back to you with the fruit you gave them. And you would come back to the soul, to fill her with your blessedness. There the soul dwells like the fish in the sea and the sea in the fish.
St. Catherine of Siena