Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.
St. Catherine of SienaThe Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
St. Catherine of SienaWe've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.
St. Catherine of SienaThe strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
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