Shirley Bachmeier

“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, The Sacrament of the Present Moment

“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, The Sacrament of the Present Moment

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

“With God, the more one seems to lose the more one gains. The more He strikes off of what is natural, the more He gives of what is supernatural. He is loved at first for His gifts, but when these are no longer perceptible He is at last loved for Himself. It is by the apparent withdrawal of these sensible gifts that He prepares the way for that great gift which is the most precious and the most extensive of all, since it embraces all others. Souls which have once for all submitted themselves to the divine action, ought to interpret everything favourably.”
― Jean-Pierre de Caussade, Abandonment to Divine Providence