Quotes by Jean-Pierre de Caussade

“So we follow our wandering paths, and the very darkness acts as our guide and our doubts serve to reassure us”

“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”

“Over hill, over dale,Thorough bush, thorough brier,Over park, over pale,Thorough flood, thorough fire,I do wander everywhere.”

“I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high oer vales and hills, / When all at once I saw a crowd, / A host, of golden daffodils.”

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 Gods order which, in its great variety, is in us all.

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 Gods order, and the means he ordains is best for the soul.

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

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.