The Question of Pain and Suffering

“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, Abandonment to Divine Providence 

“Job blessed the name of God in his utter desolation. Instead of looking upon his condition as ruin, he called it the name of God and by blessing it he protested that the divine will under whatever name or form it might appear, even though expressed by the most terrible catastrophes, was holy.”

― Jean-Pierre de Caussade, Abandonment to Divine Providence 

“It is the will of God which guides souls along paths which it alone knows.”

― Jean-Pierre de Caussade, Abandonment to Divine Providence 

“never lose sight of the great and consoling truth that nothing happens in this world but by the command of God, or at least, with His divine permission; and that, whatever He wills, or permits turns infallibly to the advantage of those who are submissive and resigned.”

― Jean-Pierre de Caussade, Abandonment to Divine Providence