You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
St. Catherine of SienaDo not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
St. Catherine of SienaThe 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 SienaNo 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 he would be an evil case, who for some legitimate reason was unable to do actual penance. Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
St. Catherine of Siena