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Born: in Cahors, France, March 07, 1675
Died: December 08, 1751
Jean Pierre de Caussade was a French Jesuit priest and writer known for his work Abandonment to Divine Providence (also translated as The Sacrament of the Present Moment) and his work with Nuns of the Visitation in Nancy, France.
“God instructs the heart, not by ideas but by pains and contradictions.”[1]
― Jean-Pierre de Caussade
“(5) If we wish to be united to God we should value all the operations of his grace, but we should cling only to the duties of the present moment.”
― Jean-Pierre de Caussade, Abandonment to Divine Providence
[1] Jean-Pierre de Caussade, Abandonment to Divine Providence : “God teaches the soul by pains and obstacles, not by ideas.”
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