Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon Quotes
He who has a pure heart will never cease to pray; and he who will be constant in prayer, shall know what it is to have a pure heart.
Self-seeking is the gate by which a soul departs from peace; and total abandonment to the will of God, that by which it returns.
I have never found any who prayed so well as those who had never been taught how. They who have no master in man, have one in the Holy Spirit.
Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!
God's designs regarding you, and His methods of bringing about these designs, are infinitely wise.
All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in God only, it has passed beyond the reach of desolation.
The more wants we have, the further we are from God, and the nearer we approach him, the better can we dispense with everything that is not Himself.
It is the fire of suffering that brings forth the gold of godliness.
Let no one ask a stronger mark of an excellent love to God, than that we are insensible to our own reputation.
Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state.
We must forget ourselves and all self-interest, and listen, and be attentive to God.
O my God, how true it is that we may have of Thy gifts and yet may be full of ourselves!
God causes us to promise in time of peace what He exacts from us in time of war; He enables us to make our abandonments in joy, but He requires the fulfilment of them in the midst of much bitterness.
To rob God of nothing; to refuse Him nothing; to require of Him nothing; this is great perfection.
Our activity should consist in placing ourselves in a state of susceptibility to Divine impressions, and pliability to all the operations of the Eternal Word.