"God instructs the heart, not by ideas but……" — Jean-Pierre de Caussade
"God instructs the heart, not by ideas but by pains and contradictions."
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Jean-Pierre de Caussade
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15 Quotes by Jean-Pierre de Caussade
Jean-Pierre de Caussade has 15 quotes on this site.
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All simple souls must admire and respect one another, saying: 'Let us proceed each one along our path to the…
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There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be…
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The books the Holy Spirit is writing are living, and every soul a volume in which the divine author makes…
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You would be very ashamed if you knew what the experiences you call setbacks, upheavals, pointless disturbances, and tedious annoyances…
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Souls who can recognize God in the most trivial, the most grievous and the most mortifying things that happen to…
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The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like…
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What God arranges for us to experience at each moment is the best and holiest thing that could happen to…
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Those who have abandoned themselves to God always lead mysterious lives and receive from him exceptional and miraculous gifts by…
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There is no peace more wonderful than the peace we enjoy when faith shows us God in all created things.
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To love God in great things is not so perfect an act of faith as to worship them in small…
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The present moment is always full of infinite treasure. It contains far more than you can possibly grasp. Faith is…
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God speaks to all individuals through what happens to them moment by moment.
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More Contradiction Quotes
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This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely…
— Douglas Adams
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the…
— Roland Barthes
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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
— Georges Bataille
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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
— William Blake
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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death,…
— Andre Breton
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary…
— Fidel Castro
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I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the…
— Charlie Chaplin
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer…
— Winston Churchill
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether…
— Thomas Paine
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