Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
St. Catherine Of SienaRead
Make yourself a "capacity" and I will make myself a "torrent."
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote emphasizes the importance of personal growth and readiness to embrace opportunities.
St. Catherine of Siena highlights the relationship between an individual's capacity to grow and the abundance of possibilities that can come to them. By building one's own capacity—through skills, knowledge, and emotional resilience—one opens themselves to receiving opportunities and experiences, symbolized by the 'torrent' which represents an overwhelming flow of positive possibilities and experiences that come from a prepared mind and heart.
Themes
CapacityTorrentGrowthOpportunityReadiness
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to encourage students to develop their skills.
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All quotes →When it seems that God shows us the faults of others, keep on the safer side-it may be that your judgment is false. On your lips let silence abide. And any vice that you may ascribe to others, ascribe at once to them and yourself, in true humility. If that vice really exists in a person, he will correct himself better, seeing himself so gently understood, and will say of his own accord the thing that you would have said to him.
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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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To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
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There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire ever burning and never consumed, which itself consumes all the selfish love that fills my being.
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