Nothing is essential, real, or of any value unless ordained by God who arranges all things and makes them useful to the soul. Apart from this divine will all is hollow, empty, null, there is nothing but falsehood, vanity, nothingness, death.
–Jean-Pierre de Caussade (1675-1751)
No state of life can, assuredly, be sanctified in a more exalted manner, nor in a more wonderful and easy way than by the simple use of the means that God, the sovereign director of souls, gives them to do or to suffer at each moment.
–Jean-Pierre de Caussade (1675-1751)
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.
–Jean-Pierre de Caussade (1675-1751)
Reconciliation always brings a springtime to the soul.
–Brother Roger of Taize (1915-2005)
Welcoming the comfort that the Holy Spirit gives means seeking, in silence and peace, to surrender ourselves to him.
–Brother Roger of Taize (1915-2005)
Never distant, never on the defensive, freed of all harshness, the Church can radiate the humble trusting of faith into our human hearts.
–Brother Roger of Taize (1915-2005)
