# Quote of the Day, 6 September: Père Jacques ^5208b4 Source: https://carmelitequotes.blog/2025/09/05/jacquesconf1/ Carmel is a community of human beings who reveal God to other human beings. There should be a Carmel in every city, and then there would be no need of works. One would see God through these human beings who live for him and him alone. A person does not withdraw to Carmel because of weariness, or to know tranquility, or to live a mediocre life, or to flee the cares of keeping a home and family, or to have a more comfortable existence. One comes here because she is athirst for God, because she desires to find God and to reveal God to the whole world. ## Servant of God Père Jacques de Jésus *Conference 1, Solitude, the Essence of Carmel* *Monday morning, 6 September 1943* Jacques, P 2005, *Listen to the silence: A retreat with Père Jacques*, translated from the French and edited by Murphy F, [ICS Publications](https://www.icspublications.org/products/listen-to-the-silence-a-retreat-with-pere-jacques), Washington DC. **Featured image:** Mother María Capilla de Jesús, OCD, is seen walking down a hallway on the main floor of the Carmel of Valladolid. Image credit: Angel Cantero, Iglesia en Valladolid / Flickr ([Some rights reserved](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en)) --- #type/quotes/carmel ← [[20250904-quote-justice|Previous]] | [[20250908|Next]] →