No doing without some ruing.

Catherine [of Siena] sent the Pope five oranges which she had candied and covered with gold leaf… She develops the theme of the difference between the bitter and the sweet pain, and gives the Pope...

And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains...

I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.

I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps.

God grant … that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that...

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had...

And she felt joy bubbling up in her heart—that the world was so full of sunshine and beauty and gladness. And she had put herself outside it, banished herself to her corner. For all that,...

Most of my father’s life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.

She [Catherine of Siena] found a place of refuge in a lonely wood, where some hermits lived. It is generally thought that this brotherhood was the community of hermits in Vallombrosa, founded by St. John...

My school was co-educational and heavily committed to progressive educational ideas. It played an important role in shaping my character.

I’ve done many things that I thought I would never dare to do because they were sins. But I didn’t realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other...

Do you know who ’twas that first knew our Lord had caused Himself to be born? ‘Twas the cock; he saw the star, and so he said–all the beasts could talk Latin in those days;...

Jeg trodde jeg var skuffet – og jeg tenkte det var fordi jeg hadde lengtet så meget og drømt så meget, at alt jeg ville få se, skulle bli blekt og fattig imot mine drømer....