Quotes by Jean-Pierre de Caussade

Jean-Pierre de Caussade

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.

Action

Creatures

Hands

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.

Mean

Order

Simple

God instructs the heart, not by ideas but by pains and contradictions.

Heart

Ideas

Pain

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.

Encouragement

Religious

Support

God speaks to every individual through what happens to them moment by moment.

God

Moments

Speak

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

Ideas

Pain

Soul

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.

Exercise

God's Plan

Reality

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

Book

Drink

Wish

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.

Courage

Faith

Shadow Of Death

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.

God

Life

Soul

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Book

Canvas

Catholic

Children

Clever

Courage

Creation

Creatures

Divine

Doe

Dream

Drink

Encouragement

Enjoy

Exercise

Faith

God

God's Plan

Hands

Happens

Heart

Ideas

Infinite

Inspirational

Life

Light

Love

May

Mean

Moments

Order

Pain

Perfect

Reality

Religious

Riches

Shadow

Shadow Of Death

Simple

Soul

Speak

Support

Thinking

Upheaval

Water

Wish

Wonderful

Worry

Worship

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Quotes by Jean-Pierre de Caussade

Jean-Pierre de Caussade

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.

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.

God instructs the heart, not by ideas but by pains and contradictions.

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.

God speaks to every individual through what happens to them moment by moment.

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

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

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.

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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