Jean Pierre de Caussade Quotes

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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 Caussade
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 Caussade
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.

Jean Pierre de Caussade
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 Caussade
There is no peace more wonderful than the peace we enjoy when faith shows us God in all created things.

Jean Pierre de Caussade
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 Caussade
The duties of each moment are the shadows beneath which hides the divine operation.

Jean Pierre de Caussade
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 support, their confidence, their hope, their only resource.

Jean Pierre de Caussade
If we wish to quench our thirst, we must lay aside books which explain thirst and take a drink.

Jean Pierre de Caussade
The present moment holds infinite riches beyond your wildest dreams.

Jean Pierre de Caussade
In the shadow of death he produces life, and though the senses are terrified, faith taking all for the best, is full of courage and assurance.

Jean Pierre de Caussade