--- title: "3 Abyss Quotes By St. Catherine of Siena" description: "3 Abyss quotes by St. Catherine of Siena. Plus more from St. Catherine of Siena and more Abyss sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d0/st-catherine-of-siena-4731_abyss_this-my-goodness-does-to-endow-the-souls_364954.jpg" --- > [This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-catherine-of-siena/this-my-goodness-does-to-endow-the-souls-of-the-just-more-fully-with/) [St. Catherine of Siena](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-catherine-of-siena/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d0/st-catherine-of-siena-4731_abyss_this-my-goodness-does-to-endow-the-souls_364954.jpg) > [O Trinity, eternal Trinity! Fire, abyss of love... Was it necessary that you should give Even the Holy Trinity as food for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-catherine-of-siena/o-trinity-eternal-trinity-fire-abyss-of-love-was-it-necessary-that/) [St. Catherine of Siena](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-catherine-of-siena/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b73/st-catherine-of-siena-4731_abyss_o-trinity-eternal-trinity-fire-abyss-of_1638842.jpg) > [O abyss! O eternal Godhead! O deep sea! What more could you have given me than the gift of your very self?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-catherine-of-siena/o-abyss-o-eternal-godhead-o-deep-sea-what-more-could-you-have-given/) [St. Catherine of Siena](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-catherine-of-siena/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2f/st-catherine-of-siena-4731_abyss_o-abyss-o-eternal-godhead-o-deep-sea-wha_2823737.jpg) ## Other authors on Abyss - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-nietzsche-36363.jpg) Friedrich Nietzsche 23 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abyss/friedrich-nietzsche/) - [Laura Kreitzer 8 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abyss/laura-kreitzer/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abyss/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-nikos-kazantzakis-71563.jpg) Nikos Kazantzakis 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abyss/nikos-kazantzakis/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-milton-51960.jpg) John Milton 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abyss/john-milton/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-gustave-flaubert-39717.jpg) Gustave Flaubert 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abyss/gustave-flaubert/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-franz-kafka-35977.jpg) Franz Kafka 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abyss/franz-kafka/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-dickens-22226.jpg) Charles Dickens 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abyss/charles-dickens/) ## More by St. Catherine of Siena > [Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-catherine-of-siena/eternal-trinity-mystery-deep-as-the-sea-you-could-give-me-no-greater/) [St. Catherine of Siena](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-catherine-of-siena/) > [Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-catherine-of-siena/do-not-presume-to-choose-your-own-way-of-serving-instead-of-the-one-i/) [St. Catherine of Siena](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-catherine-of-siena/) > [avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-catherine-of-siena/avarice-breeds-envy-a-worm-that-is-always-gnawing-letting-the/) [St. Catherine of Siena](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-catherine-of-siena/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-catherine-of-siena/consider-god-s-charity-where-else-have-we-ever-seen-someone-who-has/) [St. Catherine of Siena](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-catherine-of-siena/) > [Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-catherine-of-siena/nothing-great-is-ever-achieved-without-much-enduring/) [St. Catherine of Siena](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-catherine-of-siena/) > [The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-catherine-of-siena/the-soul-as-soon-as-she-comes-to-know-me-reaches-out-to-love-her/) [St. Catherine of Siena](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-catherine-of-siena/) > [too great pity is the greatest cruelty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-catherine-of-siena/too-great-pity-is-the-greatest-cruelty/) [St. Catherine of Siena](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-catherine-of-siena/) > [You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-catherine-of-siena/you-god-made-yourself-lowly-and-small-to-make-us-great/) [St. Catherine of Siena](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-catherine-of-siena/) > [The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-catherine-of-siena/the-soul-is-in-god-and-god-in-the-soul-just-as-the-fish-is-in-the-sea/) [St. Catherine of Siena](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-catherine-of-siena/) > [What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-catherine-of-siena/what-is-it-you-want-to-change-your-hair-your-face-your-body-why-for/) [St. Catherine of Siena](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-catherine-of-siena/) > [Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-catherine-of-siena/charity-is-the-sweet-and-holy-bond-which-links-the-soul-with-its/) [St. Catherine of Siena](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-catherine-of-siena/) > [There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-catherine-of-siena/there-is-nothing-we-can-desire-or-want-that-we-do-not-find-in-god/) [St. Catherine of Siena](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-catherine-of-siena/) > [O You who are mad about Your creature! true God and true Man, You have left Yourself wholly to us, as food, so that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-catherine-of-siena/o-you-who-are-mad-about-your-creature-true-god-and-true-man-you-have/) [St. Catherine of Siena](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-catherine-of-siena/) > [Out of darkness is born the light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-catherine-of-siena/out-of-darkness-is-born-the-light/) [St. Catherine of Siena](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-catherine-of-siena/) > [This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are stripped of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-catherine-of-siena/this-my-goodness-does-to-endow-the-souls-of-the-just-more-fully-with/) [St. Catherine of Siena](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-catherine-of-siena/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abyss/st-catherine-of-siena/#itemlist", "name": "3 Abyss Quotes By St. Catherine of Siena", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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. 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