"God commands not impossibilities, but by commanding he suggests to you to do what you can, to ask for what is beyond your strength; and he helps you, that you may be able."

St Augustine

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"Lord, here burn, here cut, and dry up in me all that hinders me from going to You, that You may spare me in eternity."

St Louis Bertrand

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"This is the greatest wisdom -- to seek the kingdom of heaven through contempt of the world. "

Thomas á Kempis

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Fr Jean-Pierre de Caussade, SJ   (1675 - 1751)
 

ABANDONMENT TO DIVINE PROVIDENCE (cont)
 

by Fr Jean-Pierre de Caussade, SJ
 
EDITED BY THE REV. J. RAMI�RE, S.J.
INTRODUCTION BY DOM ARNOLD, O.S.B.

From the Tenth Complete French Edition
BY E. J. STRICKLAND

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The translation from the French of Father de Caussade's book on "Abandonment to Divine Providence" is to my knowledge well done, and is a faithful rendering of the original text.

ANSCAR VONIER, O.S.B., Abbot
DOM DUNSTAN, O.S.B.
3rd March, 1921
JOANNES Ep. Plym.
7th March, 1921


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