““Madame Guyon noted in her book, “Short and Easy Method of Prayer” that, “Religion applies the remedy to the outward body while the disease lies at the heart.”41 That is why we must disciple men into the “prayer of the heart” rather than just the “prayer of understanding.” She states, “For all that is of man’s own power or exertion must first die, be it ever so noble or exalted.” Why? Because, “Nothing is so opposed to God as self-sufficiency.” She writes, “Activity obstructs union, for God being in infinite stillness, the soul must participate in this stillness. Else the contrariety between stillness and activity would prevent assimilation; therefore the soul can never arrive at divine union without the repose of the will.””
