Quote by Jean Pierre de Caussade
“Sin embargo, siente el alma en sí una fuerza fundamental que la centra en Dios, y escucha en su interior una voz que le asegura que todo irá bien, siempre que ella le deje hacer a Dios y no viva sino de la fe. Como dice Jacob, «verdaderamente Dios está aquí, y yo no lo sabía» [Gén 28,16]. Alma querida, tú andas buscando a Dios, y Él está en todas partes. Todo te lo revela, todo te lo da, está junto a ti, a tu alrededor, en ti misma ¡y andas buscándole! Posees la sustancia de Dios, y buscas su idea. Buscas la perfección, y está en todo cuanto de sí mismo se te presenta. Tus sufrimientos, tus acciones, tus inclinaciones, son enigmas bajo los cuales se da Dios a ti por sí mismo, mientras que vanamente sueñas ideas sublimes, de las que no quiere servirse para morar en ti.”
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Jean Pierre de Caussade S.J. was a French Catholic Jesuit writer known for his work Abandonment to Divine Providence (also translated as The Sacrament of the Present Moment) and his posthumously-published letters of instruction to the Nuns of the Visitation at Nancy, where he spiritual director from 1733-1740, although he continued to write the sisters after leaving Nancy.
While he is best known for his work with the sisters, he also spent years as preacher in southern and central France, as a college rector (at Perpignan and at Albi) and as the director of theological students at the Jesuit house in Toulouse. Caussade is remembered for, among other things, his belief that the present moment is a sacrament from God and that self-abandonment to it and its needs is a holy state - a belief which, at first glance, would appear to be heretical relative to Catholic dogma. In fact, because of this fear (especially with the Church's condemnation of the Quietiest movement), Caussade's instructions to the sisters were kept unpublished until 1861, and even then they were edited to protect them from charges of Quietism. A more authoritative version of these notes was published only in 1966. It is clear in his writings that he is aware of the Quietists and that he rejects their perspective.