Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon famous quotes

07-10-2025

It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God.
-- Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

#Self #Lost #Discipleship
We must forget ourselves and all self-interest, and listen, and be attentive to God.
-- Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

#Self #Forget #Interest
It 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 Guyon

#Happiness #Spiritual #Leaving
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 the way to become perfect is to live in the presence of God.
-- Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

#Prayer #Mean #Keys
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

#Prayer #Heart #Praying
We 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

#Taken #Thinking #Thousand
As one sees a river pass into the ocean, lose itself in it, its water for a time distinguished from that of the sea, till it gradually becomes transformed into the same sea, and possesses all its qualities; so was my soul lost in God, who communicated to it His qualities, having drawn it out of all that it had of its own. Its life is an inconceivable innocence, not known or comprehended of those who are still shut up in themselves or only live for themselves.
-- Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

#God #Ocean #Sea
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

#Inward #Surrender #States
Our activity should consist in placing ourselves in a state of susceptibility to Divine impressions, and pliability to all the operations of the Eternal Word.
-- Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

#Divine #States #Should
Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!
-- Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

#Humility #Self #Opposites
Secrets 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 Guyon

#Atheist #Men #Secret
The only way to Heaven is prayer; a prayer of the heart, which every one is capable of, and not of reasonings which are the fruits of study, or exercise of the imagination, which, in filling the mind with wandering objects, rarely settle it; instead of warming the heart with love to God, they leave it cold and languishing.
-- Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

#Prayer #Heart #Exercise
In 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

#Peace #Order #Soul
God's designs regarding you, and His methods of bringing about these designs, are infinitely wise.
-- Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

#God #Wise #Design
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, and instructs the soul, which co-operates actively. God then puts the soul in a passive state where He accomplishes all, causing great progress, first by way of enjoyment, then by privation, and finally by pure love.
-- Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

#Drawing #Effort #Soul
The very discovery of these hidden things is in itself a purifying experience! The soul needs to discover what is inside. The self nature needs to see what it really is, and what it is like-right to the very bottom.
-- Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

#Powerful #Discovery #Self
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 Guyon

#Faith #Journey #Knowing
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

#Prayer #Men #Taught

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