We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but at each moment, feel only the stroke of His brush. — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
God makes all chosen souls pass through a fearful time of poverty, misery, and nothingness. He desires to destroy in them gradually all the help and confidence they derive from themselves so that He may be their sole source of… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
The duties of each moment are the shadows beneath which hides the divine operation. — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
To love God in great things is not so perfect an act of faith as to worship them in small ones. — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
In the shadow of death he produces life, and though the senses are terrified, faith taking all for the best, is full of courage… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
Those who have abandoned themselves to God always lead mysterious lives and receive from him exceptional and miraculous gifts by means of the most… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
God speaks to every individual through what happens to them moment by moment. — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
The books the Holy Spirit is writing are living, and every soul a volume in which the divine author makes a true revelation of… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
What God arranges for us to experience at each moment is the best and holiest thing that could happen to us. — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
When you happen to be entirely unoccupied with created things so that you seem to be thinking of nothing and desiring nothing, you should… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
The present moment is always full of infinite treasure. It contains far more than you can possibly grasp. Faith is the measure of its… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
All created things are living in the Hand of God. The senses see only the action of the creatures; but faith sees in everything… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
God instructs the heart, not by ideas but by pains and contradictions. — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
