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 a…

- Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

The soul seeks God by faith, not by the reasonings of the mind and labored efforts, but by the drawings of love; to which inclinations God responds, …

- 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

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 …

- Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

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…

- 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

It is a great truth, wonderful as it is undeniable, that all our happiness - temporal, spiritual, and eternal - consists in one thing; namely, in res…

- 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

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