God's designs regarding you, and His methods of bringing about these designs, are infinitely wise. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
The only way to Heaven is prayer; a prayer of the heart, which every one is capable of, and not of reasonings which are… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in God only,… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
God causes us to promise in time of peace what He exacts from us in time of war; He enables us to make our… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
How can they be delivered from the life of self, who are not willing to abandon all their possessions? How can they believe themselves despoiled of all, who possess the greatest treasure under heaven? Do not oblige me to name it, but judge, if you are enlightened; there is one of them which is less than the other, which is… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share
The very discovery of these hidden things is in itself a purifying experience! The soul needs to discover what is inside. The self nature… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
O my God, how true it is that we may have of Thy gifts and yet may be full of ourselves! — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
It is a great truth, wonderful as it is undeniable, that all our happiness - temporal, spiritual, and eternal - consists in one thing;… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it, for this is a… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
Let no one ask a stronger mark of an excellent love to God, than that we are insensible to our own reputation. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God! — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
I have never found any who prayed so well as those who had never been taught how. They who have no master in man,… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
Our activity should consist in placing ourselves in a state of susceptibility to Divine impressions, and pliability to all the operations of the Eternal… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
