A Simple Life: Wisdom from Jane Frances de Chantal
Overview
How can I keep my focus on God when novelty and consumerism constantly pull me in different directions? Saint Jane Frances de Chantal’s steadfast pursuit of inner simplicity of life in God offers rest to our psyches and spirits. Her pain, sorrow, and interior struggles gave her deep insight into God’s providence and love. Her gentle counsels illustrate how to live in harmony with God’s will and thus find peace. Jane de Chantal draws us to that one tranquil place from which we can view all events—the love of a trustworthy God.
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- Examines the teachings of Jane Frances de Chantal
- Provides time-tested spiritual guidance for living a Christian life
- Desire Only God
- Perfect Simplicity
- Surrender Yourself Absolutely
- Preparation for Prayer
- Fidelity in Prayer
- Tranquility of Heart
- How to Meditate
- The Touch of God
- Let the Heart Speak
- Abide in Peace
- Cry Out, Draw Me!
- The Presence of God
- The Ardor of Love
- Drawn to Simplicity
- The Attentiveness of Love
- God Alone
- To Possess God
- Return to God
- Lost in God
Top Highlights
“Indeed, the absolute and complete surrender of our whole being to the will of God—this reposing in the care of his Providence—is the greatest assurance of salvation we can have in this life. Repose is very easy, sweet, comfortable, and pleasant, but to surrender ourselves without abandoning or hindering his holy will is far higher, greater, and more exalted, because it means perfect indifference to everything so long as it is the will of God.” (Page 11)
“Yet trust in God and distrust of self are what constitute holiness and true virtue. Humility is nothing else than the contempt and putting aside of self; it is the love of one’s own effacement, miseries, abjection; the gentle bearing with; even the wishing sweetly, cheerfully, and lovingly that we should be held and treated for what we are.” (Page 2)
“We are all called to this perfection, and to attain to it there is no need to weaken the body by penances and austerities.” (Page 11)
“and desiring nothing other than what life handed her at that moment” (Page xiv)
“Few things are needed for perfection: to will what is right and to do it—everything lies in this” (Page 5)
Jane Frances de Chantal (1572–1641) was a mother, widow, administrator, foundress, teacher, contemplative, and spiritual director. With Francis de Sales, she founded the Congregation of the Visitation in 1610.