“I did not intend my creatures to make themselves servants and slaves to the world’s pleasures. They own their first love to me. Everything else they should love and possess, as I told you, not as if they owned it but as something lent to them.”
Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), in Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010) 454.