St. Catherine Of Siena

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

When it seems that God shows us the faults of others, keep on the safer side-it may be that your judgment is false. On your lips let silence abide. And any vice that you may ascribe to others, ascribe at once to them and yourself, in true humility. If that vice really exists in a person, he will correct himself better, seeing himself so gently understood, and will say of his own accord the thing that you would have said to him.

O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself?

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.

Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire ever burning and never consumed, which itself consumes all the selfish love that fills my being.

Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.

Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.

We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.

We'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.

One who knows more, loves more.

Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.

Consider God's charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?

A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.

This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are stripped of material goods because they have renounced the world and all its pleasures and even their own will. These are the ones who fatten their souls, enlarging them in the abyss of my charity. Then I become their spiritual provider. The Holy Spirit becomes their servant.

Make yourself a "capacity" and I will make myself a "torrent."

It is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.

It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.

It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.

You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.