Franciscan Quote of the Day

At every moment God’s will produces what is needful for the task in hand, and the simple soul, instructed by faith, finds everything as it should be and wants neither more nor less than what it has.

~Father Jean-Pierre de Caussade, Self-Abandonment to Divine Providence

It means the state of a soul caught up, so to say, in God’s machinery, for whom the supernatural life is more real than the natural.

~Father Jean-Pierre de Caussade, Self-Abandonment to Divine Providence

And so their lives are not spent in questioning, wishful thinking, contempt or sighs, but in the certainty that what they have is always the best.

~Jean-Pierre de Caussade, The Sacrament of the Present Moment

If we had faith, we would be grateful to all creatures, we would bless them and inwardly thank them for contributing, under God’s hand, so favorably to our perfection.

~Jean-Pierre de Caussade, The Sacrament of the Present Moment

A living faith is nothing else than a steadfast pursuit of God through all that disguises, disfigures, demolishes and seeks, so to speak, to abolish him.

~Jean-Pierre de Caussade, The Sacrament of the Present Moment

Faith gives the whole earth a celestial aspect; by it the heart is transported, enraptured to commune with heaven. Each moment is a revelation of God.

~Jean-Pierre de Caussade, The Sacrament of the Present Moment

Likewise, 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, The Sacrament of the Present Moment

Just as there was no difference between what the good and the bad thief had to do and suffer in order to become saints, neither is there for souls, some of whom are worldly and others spiritual. Those who damn their souls do so by attempting to achieve through their fantasies what those who save their souls achieve through submitting to your will, and by protesting and grumbling about what those who are saved suffer with resignation. Thus, only the heart is different.

~Jean-Pierre de Caussade, The Sacrament of the Present Moment

To discover God in the smallest and most ordinary things, as well as in the greatest, is to possess a rare and sublime faith. To find contentment in the present moment is to relish and adore the divine will in the succession of all the things to be done and suffered which make up the duty to the present moment.

~Jean-Pierre de Caussade, The Sacrament of the Present Moment