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Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon was a French mystic and was accused of advocating Quietism, although she never called herself a Quietist. Quietism was considered heretical by the Roman Catholic Church, and she was imprisoned from 1695 to 1703 after publishing the book A Short and Very Easy Method of Prayer. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. April 1648 – 9. June 1717
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“True simplicity regards God alone; it has its eye fixed upon Him, and is not drawn toward self; and it is as pleased to say humble as great things. All our uneasy feelings and reflections arise from self-love, whatever appearance of piety they may assume. The lack of simplicity inflicts many wounds. Go where we will, if we remain in ourselves, we shall carry everywhere our sins and our distresses. If we would live in peace, we must lose sight of self, and rest in the infinite and unchangeable God.”

Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 544.

“We must forget ourselves and all self-interest, and listen, and be attentive to God.”

Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 194.

“We must surrender our whole being to Christ Jesus, and cease to live any longer in ourselves, that He may become our life; that being dead, " our life may be hid with Christ in God."”

Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 543.

“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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 193.

“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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 240.

“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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 542.

“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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 297.

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