“The city is the image of the soul, the surrounding walls being the frontier between the outward and inward life. The gates are the faculties or senses connecting the life of the soul with the outward world. Living springs of water rise within it. And in the centre, where beats the heart, stands the holy sanctuary.” WorldHeartSoulWaterCitiesWallHolyBeatsSpringSensesGatesFacultyInwardCentreConnectingFrontiersSanctuary Author:St. Catherine of Siena
“O Trinity, eternal Trinity! Fire, abyss of love... Was it necessary that you should give Even the Holy Trinity as food for souls?... You gave us not only your Word Through the Redemption and in the Eucharist, But you also gave yourself In the fullness of love for your creature.” GivingShouldSoulFireHolyCreaturesEternalRedemptionSacramentsAbyssFullnessEucharistTrinityHoly TrinityFood For The Soul Author:St. Catherine of Siena
“Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.” SoulInspirationSpiritFaithFatherWaitingSonHolyGoodnessTablesChristian InspirationalYour SoulHoly SpiritDwellingGoodness Of God 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 material goods because they have renounced the world and all its pleasures and even their own will. These are the ones who fatten their souls, enlarging them in the abyss of my charity. Then I become their spiritual provider. The Holy Spirit becomes their servant.” WorldDoeSoulInspirationSpiritualSpiritFaithPleasureMaterialsHolyGoodnessCatholicCharityRichesServantHoly SpiritGoodsAbyssProviders 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.” MenLoveSoulChristianSweetHolyCharitySaintCreatorGod LoveLinksCatholic Saint Author:St. Catherine of Siena
“And of what should we be afraid? Our captain on this battlefield is Christ Jesus. We have discovered what we have to do. Christ has bound our enemies for us and weakened them that they cannot overcome us unless we so choose to let them. So we must fight courageously and mark ourselves with the sign of the most Holy Cross.” ShouldFightingJesusChristEnemyHolyCrossesOvercomingMarkBoundsSaintCaptainsBattlefieldsHoly Cross 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
