“Those who tread these paths should be informed of a matter respecting their confession in which they are apt to err. When they begin to give an account of their sins, instead of the regret and contrition they had been… — Madame Guyon Copy Share Image
“Now when the soul by its efforts to abandon outward objects and gather itself inwards, is brought into the influence of the central tendency, without any other exertion, it falls gradually by the weight of Divine Love into its proper… — Madame Guyon Copy Share Image
“We must, however, urge it as a matter of the highest import, to cease from self-action and self-exertion, that God himself may act alone:… — Madame Guyon Copy Share Image
“The soul should not be surprised at feeling itself unable to offer up to God such petitions as it had formally made with freedom… — Madame Guyon Copy Share Image
“Those who tread these paths should be informed of a matter respecting their confession in which they are apt to err. When they begin… — Madame Guyon Copy Share Image
“To pastors and teachers If all who laboured for the conversion of others were to introduce them immediately into Prayer and the Interior Life,… — Madame Guyon Copy Share Image
“Come, ye dull, ignorant, and illiterate, ye who think yourselves the most incapable of prayer! Ye are more peculiarly called and adapted thereto. Let… — Madame Guyon Copy Share Image
“To pastors and teachers Compose catechisms particularly to teach prayer, not by reasoning nor by method, for the simple are incapable thereof; but to… — Madame Guyon Copy Share Image
“Whatever truth you have chosen, read only a small portion of it, endeavouring to taste and digest it, to extract the essence and substance… — Madame Guyon Copy Share Image
“If while reading, you feel yourself recollected, lay aside the book and remain in stillness; at all times read but little, and cease to… — Madame Guyon Copy Share Image
“My earnest wish is to paint in true colors the goodness of God to me, and the depth of my own ingratitude” — Madame Guyon Copy Share Image
“Now when the soul by its efforts to abandon outward objects and gather itself inwards, is brought into the influence of the central tendency,… — Madame Guyon Copy Share Image
“We should accept indiscriminately all His dispensations, whether obscurity or illumination, fruitfulness or barrenness, weakness or strength, sweetness or bitterness, temptations, distractions, pain, weariness,… — Madame Guyon Copy Share Image
“Some persons, when they hear of the prayer of silence, falsely imagine that the soul remains stupid, dead, and inactive. But unquestionably, it acteth… — Madame Guyon Copy Share Image
