Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
To have time for it, I left off prayer which was to me the first inlet of evils.
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
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
My earnest wish is to paint in true colors the goodness of God to me, and the depth of my own ingratitude — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
To rob God of nothing; to refuse Him nothing; to require of Him nothing; this is great perfection. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
The devil is outrageous only against prayer, and those that exercise it; because he knows it is the true means of taking his prey from him. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
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. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
Ah, if you knew what peace there is in an accepted sorrow! — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
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
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. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
We must forget ourselves and all self-interest, and listen, and be attentive to God. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
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. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
This spirit gradually decayed, not being nourished by prayer. I became cold toward God. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
There are two means by which we may be led into the higher forms of prayer. One is Meditation, the other is Meditative Reading. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
God's designs regarding you, and His methods of bringing about these designs, are infinitely wise. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? (Romans 8:32). — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
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. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
It is the fire of suffering that brings forth the gold of godliness. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
