28 Quotes by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God.

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.

Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and of acquiring all virtues; for the way to become perfect is to live in the presence of God.

Let no one ask a stronger mark of an excellent love to God, than that we are insensible to our own reputation.

To rob God of nothing; to refuse Him nothing; to require of Him nothing; this is great perfection.

God’s designs regarding you, and His methods of bringing about these designs, are infinitely wise.

We must forget ourselves and all self-interest, and listen, and be attentive to God.

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 journey of unknowables – of unanswered questions, enigmas, incomprehensibles, and, most of all, things unfair.

It is a great truth, wonderful as it is undeniable, that all our happiness temporal, spiritual, and eternal consists in one thing; namely, in resigning ourselves to God, and in leaving ourselves with Him, to do with us and in us just as He pleases.