Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quotes

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• All simple souls must admire and respect one another, saying: 'Let us proceed each one along our path to the same goal, united in purpose…
• There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation to…
• The books the Holy Spirit is writing are living, and every soul a volume in which the divine author makes a true revelation of his…
• You would be very ashamed if you knew what the experiences you call setbacks, upheavals, pointless disturbances, and tedious annoyances really are. You would realize…
• Souls who can recognize God in the most trivial, the most grievous and the most mortifying things that happen to them in their lives, honor…
• The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon.
• What God arranges for us to experience at each moment is the best and holiest thing that could happen to us.
• Those who have abandoned themselves to God always lead mysterious lives and receive from him exceptional and miraculous gifts by means of the most ordinary,…
• There is no peace more wonderful than the peace we enjoy when faith shows us God in all created things.
• To love God in great things is not so perfect an act of faith as to worship them in small ones.
• The present moment is always full of infinite treasure. It contains far more than you can possibly grasp. Faith is the measure of its riches:…
• God speaks to all individuals through what happens to them moment by moment.
• God instructs the heart, not by ideas but by pains and contradictions.
• If the work of our sanctification presents us with difficulties that appear insurmountable, it is because we do not look at it in the right…
• God teaches the soul by pains and obstacles, not by ideas.

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