28 Quotes by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in God only, it has passed beyond the reach of desolation.

Self-seeking is the gate by which a soul departs from peace; and total abandonment to the will of God, that by which it returns.

Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!

Ah, if you knew what peace there is in an accepted sorrow!

The more wants we have, the further we are from God, and the nearer we approach him, the better can we dispense with everything that is not Himself.

Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state.

I have never found any who prayed so well as those who had never been taught how. They who have no master in man, have one in the Holy Spirit.

Oh, my God, if the value of prayer were but known, the great advantage which accrues to the soul from conversing with Thee, and what consequence it is of to salvation, everyone would be assiduous in it. It is a stronghold into which the enemy cannot enter. He may attack it, besiege it, make a noise about its walls; but while we are faithful and hold our station, he cannot hurt us.

We never know how strongly we cling to objects until they are taken away, and he who thinks htat he is attached to nothing, is frequently grandly mistaken, being bound to a thousand things, unknown to himself.