The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
St. Catherine of SienaIn your nature, eternal Godhead, I shall come to know my nature. And what is my nature? It is fire, because you are nothing but a fire of love. And you have given humankind a share in this nature, for by the fire of love you created us.
St. Catherine of SienaNails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.
St. Catherine of SienaAnd of what should we be afraid? Our captain on this battlefield is Christ Jesus. We have discovered what we have to do. Christ has bound our enemies for us and weakened them that they cannot overcome us unless we so choose to let them. So we must fight courageously and mark ourselves with the sign of the most Holy Cross.
St. Catherine of Siena