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 GuyonPrayer 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 the way to become perfect is to live in the presence of God.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte GuyonGod causes us to promise in time of peace what He exacts from us in time of war; He enables us to make our abandonments in joy, but He requires the fulfilment of them in the midst of much bitterness.
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 Guyon