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

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

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

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

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

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