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Top 25 Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quotes (2025 Update)

Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quote: “God speaks to all individuals through what happens to them moment by moment.”

1. “God speaks to all individuals through what happens to them moment by moment.”

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Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quote: “The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon.”

2. “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

Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quote: “God instructs the heart, not by ideas but by pains and contradictions.”

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

— Jean-Pierre de Caussade

Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quote: “The present moment holds infinite riches beyond your wildest dreams.”

4. “The present moment holds infinite riches beyond your wildest dreams.”

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Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Jean-Pierre de Caussade

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

6. “There is no peace more wonderful than the peace we enjoy when faith shows us God in all created things.”

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

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

— Jean-Pierre de Caussade

Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quote: “God teaches the soul by pains and obstacles, not by ideas.”

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

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Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quote: “The duties of each moment are the shadows beneath which hides the divine operation.”

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

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Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quote: “What God arranges for us to experience at each moment is the best and holiest thing that could happen to us.”

13. “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

Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quote: “To love God in great things is not so perfect an act of faith as to worship them in small ones.”

14. “To love God in great things is not so perfect an act of faith as to worship them in small ones.”

— Jean-Pierre de Caussade

Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quote: “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.”

15. “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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Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

— Jean-Pierre de Caussade

Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quote: “If we have abandoned ourselves to God, there is only one rule for us: the duty of the present moment.”

18. “If we have abandoned ourselves to God, there is only one rule for us: the duty of the present moment.”

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Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quote: “We must be active in all that the present moment demands of us, but in everything else remain passive and abandoned and do nothing but peacefully wait the promptings of God.”

19. “We must be active in all that the present moment demands of us, but in everything else remain passive and abandoned and do nothing but peacefully wait the promptings of God.”

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Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

— Jean-Pierre de Caussade

Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quote: “The high road to all perfection is pointed out in the “Our Father.” “Fiat voluntas tua.” Say this with your lips as well as you can; and still more perfectly in your heart, and be assured that, with this interior disposition nothing is wanting to you, nor ever will be. Learn by this to find repose in no matter what difficulties and troubles, because all will come right when God pleases, and according to our desires, if He should will it so, or permit it.”

21. “The high road to all perfection is pointed out in the “Our Father.” “Fiat voluntas tua.” Say this with your lips as well as you can; and still more perfectly in your heart, and be assured that, with this interior disposition nothing is wanting to you, nor ever will be. Learn by this to find repose in no matter what difficulties and troubles, because all will come right when God pleases, and according to our desires, if He should will it so, or permit it.”

— Jean-Pierre de Caussade

Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

— Jean-Pierre de Caussade

Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quote: “Job blessed the name of God in his utter desolation. Instead of looking upon his condition as ruin, he called it the name of God and by blessing it he protested that the divine will under whatever name or form it might appear, even though expressed by the most terrible catastrophes, was holy.”

23. “Job blessed the name of God in his utter desolation. Instead of looking upon his condition as ruin, he called it the name of God and by blessing it he protested that the divine will under whatever name or form it might appear, even though expressed by the most terrible catastrophes, was holy.”

— Jean-Pierre de Caussade

Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quote: “That which I might endeavour to find in other ways seeks me incessantly and gives itself to me through all creatures.”

24. “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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Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quote: “There is absolutely nothing that gives us more peace or does more to make us holy than obeying the will of God.”

25. “There is absolutely nothing that gives us more peace or does more to make us holy than obeying the will of God.”

— Jean-Pierre de Caussade

Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quote: “To achieve the height of holiness, people must realize that all they count as trivial and worthless is what can make them holy.”

26. “To achieve the height of holiness, people must realize that all they count as trivial and worthless is what can make them holy.”

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Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quote: “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.”

27. “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.”

— Jean-Pierre de Caussade

Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quote: “What a festival and never-ending feast is ours! God ceaselessly gives himself and is received with no pomp and circumstance, but hidden beneath all that is weak and foolish and worthless.”

28. “What a festival and never-ending feast is ours! God ceaselessly gives himself and is received with no pomp and circumstance, but hidden beneath all that is weak and foolish and worthless.”

— Jean-Pierre de Caussade

Jean-Pierre de Caussade Quote: “It is the will of God which guides souls along paths which it alone knows.”

29. “It is the will of God which guides souls along paths which it alone knows.”

— Jean-Pierre de Caussade

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