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 GuyonOh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!
Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte GuyonThe 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 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