The present moment is always filled with infinite treasures: it contains more than you are capable of receiving. Faith is the measure of these blessings: in proportion to your faith will you receive. By love also are they measured: the more your heart loves the more it desires, and the more it desires the more it receives. The will of God is constantly before you as an unfathomable sea, which the heart cannot exhaust: only in proportion as the heart is expanded by faith, confidence, and love can it receive of its fulness.
Jean-Pierre de Caussade — Jean-Pierre de Caussade, Abandonment; or, Absolute Surrender to Divine Providence, ed. Henri Ramière, trans. Ella McMahon (New York: Benziger Brothers, 1887), section on the infinite blessings of the present moment, p. 80.
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