The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of … - Jean-Pierre de Caussade

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We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world. . . . We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.

Jean-Pierre de Caussade

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

Child, Children, Fluid, Light, Soul, Water

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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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The present moment is always full of infinite treasure. It contains far more than you can possibly grasp. Faith is the measure of its riches: what you find in the present moment is according to the measure of your faith. Love also is the measure: the more the heart loves, the more it rejoices in what God provides. The will of God presents itself at each moment like an immense ocean that the desire of your heart cannot empty; yet you will drink from that ocean according to your faith and love.

Faith, Immense, Inspirational, Love, Ocean

You would be very ashamed if you knew what the experiences you call setbacks, upheavals, pointless disturbances, and tedious annoyances really are. You would realize that your complaints about them are nothing more nor less than blasphemies - though that never occurs to you. Nothing happens to you except by the will of God, and yet [God's] beloved children curse it because they do not know it for what it is.

Beloved, Call, Children, Curse, Upheaval, Would Be

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.

Derive, Encouragement, Poverty, Religious, Souls, Support

What God arranges for us to experience at each moment is the best and holiest thing that could happen to us.

Arranges, Experience, Happen, Happens, Moment, Moments

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