For it is the nature of love, to love when it feels itself loved, and to love all things loved of its beloved. So when the soul has by degrees known the love of its Creator towards it, it loves Him, and, loving Him, loves all things whatsoever that God loves.
— Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
We are of such value to God that He came to live among us… and to guide us home. He will go to any length to seek us, even to being lifted high upon the cross to draw us back to Himself. We can only respond by loving God for His love.
— Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
Humble yourselves… We cannot pass through the low door with our head held high unless we want to crack it. And the door we have to pass through is Christ crucified, who humbled himself down to the level of us witless fools.
— Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
Of course you are unworthy. But when do you hope to be worthy? You will be no more worthy at the end than at the beginning. God alone is worthy of Himself, He alone can make us worthy of Him.
— Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.
— Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
