19 Quotes by Jean-Pierre de Caussade

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.

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.

I must not, like the quietists, reduce all religion to a denial of any specific action, despising all other means, since what makes perfection is God's order, and the means he ordains is best for the soul.

God teaches the soul by pains and obstacles, not by ideas.

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.

The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon.

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.

The duties of each moment are the shadows beneath which hides the divine operation.