Catherine of Genoa - Speak Quotes

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If, however, it happens to be necessary to speak of myself, I do so on account of the world, which would not understand me should I name myself otherwise than as men are named, yet inwardly I say: my I is God, nor is any other self known to me except my God

Catherine of Genoa

So long as any one can speak of divine things, enjoy and understand them, remember and desire them, he has not yet arrived in port; yet there are ways and means to guide him thither. But the creature can know nothing but what God gives him to know from day to day

Catherine of Genoa

I cannot work, or walk, or stand, or speak, but all this seems to me a useless thing.

Catherine of Genoa