God speaks to every individual through what happens to them moment by moment.
Jean-Pierre de CaussadeTo love God in great things is not so perfect an act of faith as to worship them in small ones.
Jean-Pierre de CaussadeSouls 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 CaussadeIf 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.
Jean-Pierre de CaussadeIf we wish to quench our thirst, we must lay aside books which explain thirst and take a drink.
Jean-Pierre de CaussadeYou 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.
Jean-Pierre de Caussade