My "me" is God nor do I recognize any other "me" except my God himself.

- Catherine Of Genoa

Oh, what peril attaches to sin willfully committed! For it is so difficult for man to bring himself to penance, and without penitence guilt remains a…

- Catherine Of Genoa

The one sole thing in myself in which I glory is that I see in myself nothing in which I can glory.

- Catherine Of Genoa

And when I hear it said that God is good and He will pardon us, and then see that men cease not from evil-doing, oh, how it grieves me! The infinite …

- Catherine Of Genoa

This I say, because God showed me somewhat of his truth, in order that I might know what man is without him; that is, when the soul is found in morta…

- Catherine Of Genoa

Lenten fasts make me feel better, stronger, and more active than ever.

- Catherine Of Genoa

Now although man is created for the possession of happiness, yet, having deviated from his true end, his nature has become deformed and is entirely r…

- Catherine Of Genoa

Love is a divine flame.

- Catherine Of Genoa

When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has s…

- Catherine Of Genoa