“Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.” MadeFactsVirtueRootsPlantVicesGardenerPondering Author:St. Catherine of Siena
“Christ Jesus left you this sweet key of obedience; for He left His Vicar, whom you are all obliged to obey until death. And whoever is outside his obedience is in a state of damnation.” StatesJesusLeftChristSweetKeysObedienceObligedDamnationVicars Author:St. Catherine of Siena
“Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.” GivingLordGive MeTake Me Author: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.” MindSoulWholeMightThreeFatherSeaFlowerBearsHolyEternalGardenPlantFruitFishesBreastsBlessednessFish In The Sea Author:St. Catherine of Siena
“Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.” MenEnoughCrossesNails Author:St. Catherine of Siena
“Even if [the Pope an incarnate devil], we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to rest on his bosom... He who rebels against our Father is condemned to death, for that which we do to him we do to Christ: we honor Christ if we honor the Pope; we dishonor Christ if we dishonor the Pope.” IfsLyingFatherChristOughtHonorDevilRaisesRebelPopeOur FatherBosomsDishonorRaise Up Author:St. Catherine of Siena
