Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon: Greatness

Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon was French mystic. Explore interesting quotes on greatness.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon: 14 quotes1 like

“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.

“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.

“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.