St. Catherine of Siena
“I told you also the teaching and principal foundation you should give to those who come to you for counsel because they want to leave behind the darkness of deadly sin and follow the path of virtue. I told you to give them… an affectionate love for virtue through knowledge of themselves and of my goodness for them. And they should slay and annihilate their selfish will so that in nothing will they rebel against me.”
– St. Catherine of Siena relaying the words God spoke to her in a vision
Source: St. Catherine of Siena, The Dialogue, Paulist Press, 1980