Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
St. Catherine Of SienaRead
We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Silence in the face of wrongs allows problems to persist; we must speak out boldly against injustice.
St. Catherine of Siena's quote emphasizes the importance of vocalizing our thoughts and opinions, especially when witnessing injustices or corruption in the world. She suggests that silence can contribute to the decline of society and that expressing oneself vigorously and with conviction is essential for driving change and addressing wrongs.
Themes
SilenceVoiceInjusticeSpeak OutCourage
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech advocating for human rights, you might say, 'As St. Catherine of Siena noted, we've had enough of exhortations to be silent.'
More from St. Catherine Of Siena
All quotes βWhen 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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