If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it, for this is a journey of unknowables - of unanswered questions, enigmas, incomprehensibles, and, most of all, things unfair.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte GuyonTo rob God of nothing; to refuse Him nothing; to require of Him nothing; this is great perfection.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte GuyonSecrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days, wants to penetrate, and to set bounds to it. Who is it that hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been His counselor?
Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte GuyonOh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!
Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte GuyonIn your occupations, try to possess your soul in peace. It is not a good plan to be in haste to perform any action that it may be sooner over. On the contrary, you should accustom yourself to do whatever you have to do with tranquility, in order that you may retain the possession of yourself and of settled peace.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon