Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
St. Catherine Of SienaRead
You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
Interpretation
Trusting in God's decisions is essential for personal growth and salvation.
This quote emphasizes the importance of faith in the divine plan, suggesting that everything that happens in our lives, whether good or bad, is ultimately for our benefit and spiritual salvation. It encourages individuals to embrace their circumstances with a positive outlook, believing that there is a greater purpose behind each event that God allows.
In practice
During a motivational talk about overcoming challenges, you can use this quote to encourage people to trust the process.
Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
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.
O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself?
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.
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.
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.
Crucially we haven't been figuring out how to live in oneness, with the Earth & every other living thing; we have just been insanely trying to figure out how to live with each other, billions of each other, only we're not living with each other our crazy selves are living with each other, and perpetuating an epidemic of disconnection.
What if a dawn of a doom of a dream bites this universe in two, peels forever out of his grave, and sprinkles nowhere with me and you?
Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.
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