Jean Nicolas Grou Quotes

Your external circumstances may change, toil may take the place of rest, sickness of health, trials may thicken within and without. Externally, you are the prey of such circumstances; but if your hear...

Your external circumstances may change, toil may take the place of rest, sickness of health, trials may thicken within and without. Externally, you are the prey of such circumstances; but if your hear...

Jean Nicolas Grou

Tags: faith, god, strength

It is when the heavenly fire has departed and the soul is cool again that we discover the real quality of our will.

Jean Nicolas Grou

It is when the heavenly fire has departed and the soul is cool again that we discover the real quality of our will.

Jean Nicolas Grou

Tags: inspirational, spirituality, will

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Jean Nicolas Grou (23 November 1731 – 13 December 1803) was a French Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, teacher, translator and mystic and spiritual writer. After the suppression of the Jesuit order, he sought sanctuary in the Dutch Republic. He returned to France, but at the outbreak of the French Revolution, he escaped to England where he gained refuge with a wealthy English household in Dorset whose house chaplain he became while continuing his literary output.