How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge! They gnaw away at themselves constantly, and they have killed themselves even before they kill their enemies.
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 SienaThere is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
St. Catherine of SienaHe has never left you.It is justthat your soul is so vastthat just likethe earth in its innocence,it may think,"I do not feel my lover's warmthagainst my face rightnow."But look, dear,is not the sun reaching down its armsand always holding a continentin its light?God cannot leave us.It is just that our soul is so vast,we do not always feel His lipsupon theveil.
St. Catherine of Siena