"We were enclosed, O eternal Father, within the……" — St. Catherine of Siena
"We were enclosed, O eternal Father, within the garden of your breast. You drew us out of your holy mind like a flower petaled with our soul's three powers and into each power you put the whole plant, so that they might bear fruit in your garden, might come back to you with the fruit you gave them. And you would come back to the soul, to fill her with your blessedness. There the soul dwells like the fish in the sea and the sea in the fish."
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St. Catherine of Siena
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65 Quotes by St. Catherine of Siena
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You [God] are a fire that takes away the coldness, illuminates the mind with its light, and causes me to…
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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself?
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O Trinity, eternal Trinity! Fire, abyss of love... Was it necessary that you should give Even the Holy Trinity as…
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And let the truth be your delight...Proclaim it..., but with a certain congeniality.
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