“Whatever truth you have chosen, read only a small portion of it, endeavouring to taste and digest it, to extract the essence and substance thereof, and proceed no farther while any savour or relish remains in the passage: when this… — 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
