| At this point Mother Ballarin recalled Saint Catherine of Siena, who «offered to the word the sapiential mercy of the testimony of her faith». |
| They drew out of their treasures the most ancient and venerable stories and enriched them with a culture both prophetic and sapiential. |
| Though born into an anachronistic American Dutch-Calvinist ambience, his religious perceptions have a latitudinarian understanding and a sapiential resonance. |
| The Legenda Maior is a long and complex text that tries to maintain a difficult balance between the need for historical truth and the theological and sapiential interpretationof the experience the saint from Siena lived. |
| The Deutero-Isaiahan theme of the life-giving and creative efficacy of the Word of God will be taken up again in the sapiential tradition. |
| It would be possible to draw up a list of charisms, focussing for the most part on that of leadership, starting from the sapiential literature of Proverbs, Wisdom, Ecclesiastes of Qoheleth and Ecclesiasticus of Ben Sirach. |
