It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.
St. Catherine of SienaFrom self-knowledge flows the stream of humility, which never seizes on mere report, nor takes offense at anything, but bears every insult, every loss of consolation, and every sorry, from whatever direction they may come, patiently, with joy.
St. Catherine of SienaO fire of love! Was it not enough for You to have created us to Your image and likeness, and to have recreated us in grace through the Blood of Your Son, without giving Yourself wholly to us as our Food, O God, Divine Essence? What impelled You to do this? Your charity alone.
St. Catherine of SienaMerit 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