Top 23 Jean-Pierre De Caussade Quotes
#1. 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.
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#3. 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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#4. 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.
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#5. To escape the distress caused by regret for the past or fear about the future, this is the rule to follow: leave the past to the infinite mercy of God, the future to His good Providence, give the present wholly to His love by being faithful to His grace.
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#6. (5) If we wish to be united to God we should value all the operations of his grace, but we should cling only to the duties of the present moment.
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#9. 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.
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#10. All created things are living in the Hand of God. The senses see only the action of the creatures; but faith sees in everything the action of God.
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#11. There is no peace more wonderful than the peace we enjoy when faith shows us God in all created things.
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#13. 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.
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#14. There is not a single person who cannot easily reach the highest degree of perfection by performing every duty, no matter how commonplace, with eager love.
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#15. The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon.
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#16. 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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#17. 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.
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#18. What God arranges for us to experience at each moment is the best and holiest thing that could happen to us.
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#19. 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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#20. That which I might endeavour to find in other ways seeks me incessantly and gives itself to me through all creatures.
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#22. If we wish to quench our thirst, we must lay aside books which explain thirst and take a drink.
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#23. 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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