Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!
Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte GuyonIt 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.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte GuyonI 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 GuyonWe 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.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon