Jean-Pierre de Caussade quotes
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“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 everything equally with delight and rejoicing, and welcome with open arms what others dread and avoid.”
-- Jean-Pierre de CaussadeSource : Louis Lallemant, Jean Pierre de Caussade, Claude De La Colombiere, Jean-Pierre Lafouge (2006). “For God's Greater Glory: Gems of Jesuit Spirituality”, p.81, World Wisdom, Inc
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“The present moment holds infinite riches beyond your wildest dreams.”
-- Jean-Pierre de CaussadeSource : Louis Lallemant, Jean Pierre de Caussade, Claude De La Colombiere, Jean-Pierre Lafouge (2006). “For God's Greater Glory: Gems of Jesuit Spirituality”, p.81, World Wisdom, Inc
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“God speaks to all individuals through what happens to them moment by moment.”
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“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: what you find in the present moment is according to the measure of your faith. Love also is the measure: the more the heart loves, the more it rejoices in what God provides. The will of God presents itself at each moment like an immense ocean that the desire of your heart cannot empty; yet you will drink from that ocean according to your faith and love.”
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“To love God in great things is not so perfect an act of faith as to worship them in small ones.”
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“There is no peace more wonderful than the peace we enjoy when faith shows us God in all created things.”
-- Jean-Pierre de CaussadeSource : Jean-Pierre De Caussade (2012). “Abandonment to Divine Providence”, p.40, Image
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“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 way. In reality, holiness consists in one thing alone, namely, fidelity to God's plan. And this fidelity is equally within everyone's capacity in both its active and passive exercise.”
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“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.”
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“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 that your complaints about them are nothing more nor less than blasphemies - though that never occurs to you. Nothing happens to you except by the will of God, and yet [God's] beloved children curse it because they do not know it for what it is.”
-- Jean-Pierre de CaussadeSource : Jean-Pierre De Caussade (2012). “Abandonment to Divine Providence”, p.47, Image
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“The duties of each moment are the shadows beneath which hides the divine operation.”
-- Jean-Pierre de CaussadeSource : Jean-Pierre De Caussade (2007). “Abandonment to Divine Providence”, p.2, Cosimo, Inc.
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“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, natural and chance experiences in which there appears to be nothing unusual. The simplest sermon, the most banal conversations, the least erudite books become a source of knowledges and wisdom to these souls by virtue of God's purpose. This is why they carefully pick up the crumbs which clever minds tread underfoot, for to them everything is precious and a source of enrichment.”
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“What God arranges for us to experience at each moment is the best and holiest thing that could happen to us.”
-- Jean-Pierre de CaussadeSource : Jean-Pierre De Caussade (2012). “Abandonment to Divine Providence”, p.27, Image
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“The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon.”
-- Jean-Pierre de CaussadeSource : Louis Lallemant, Jean Pierre de Caussade, Claude De La Colombiere, Jean-Pierre Lafouge (2006). “For God's Greater Glory: Gems of Jesuit Spirituality”, p.73, World Wisdom, Inc
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“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 word, explaining it to every heart, unfolding it in every moment.”
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“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 be enjoyed, or of some duty to be performed. All that takes place within us, around us, or through us, contains and conceals His divine action.”
-- Jean-Pierre de CaussadeSource : Jean-Pierre De Caussade (2007). “Abandonment to Divine Providence”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.
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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 and by means of God's order which, in its great variety, is in us all.”
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“God teaches the soul by pains and obstacles, not by ideas.”
-- Jean-Pierre de CaussadeSource : Jean-Pierre De Caussade (2007). “Abandonment to Divine Providence”, p.50, Cosimo, Inc.
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“God instructs the heart, not by ideas but by pains and contradictions.”
-- Jean-Pierre de Caussade
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